The Wormlips Scrapbook

After a lazy morning, we rented kayaks which were unlike any I’ve encountered before. Made of thin plastic with little round, keel-less bellies, they didn’t cut through the water so much as flit across the surface driven by invisible forces. My attempts to steer prompted bouts of swearing; things were better when I just bobbed [...]

Midnight, December 19: Already our Spanish is being tested. When we got to our gate, an announcement in Spanish came across the loudspeaker: something about “ah-dos.” While I sat happily at gate A-1 as originally instructed, scores of people flooded toward A-2… Noon, December 19: After a stop in San Salvador, we landed at the [...]

When I first started learning about Web development, getting an image to line up on an html page was a major coup, and an animated gif was the ultimate in cool — only truly appreciated the high-tech few who were lucky enough to have a color monitor: one of those big ones, the size of [...]