Unqualified Offerings

Since blogs are upside-down, it can be inconvenient to follow a narrative on one. So below is a handy set of links to the Unqualified Offerings 9/11 Anniversary . . . hickiejigger. For the curious, Thoreau came up with the reboot idea awhile ago and tipped me to his plans. He had all his posts [...]

Sapphire: Think about this, Mister Thoreau. You’re not proving anything. You have an argument with your country about how it reacted to the atrocities that happened -
Steel: Should have happened this morning.
Sapphire: Should have happened ten years ago. And this morning. That should always be right here. But your political adversaries would say that making [...]

By Thoreau
They Might Be Giants just released Mink Car this morning.  I got it on the way to the lab and listened to it all day while analyzing fluorescence data and making colloidal silica.  My take:
The opening track “Bangs” is not their strongest ever, but it’s energetic, and a suitably quirky Linnell song to start [...]

Steel: You are the one they call Thoreau?
Thoreau: Indeed. And you are . . . ?
Steel: Call yourself a nerd, do you?
Sapphire: Now, Steel. Obscurity is obscurity. It won’t do to grouse about it.
Thoreau: The Lady has the right of it. Believe me, as a blogger, I know all about obscurity. Hah hah!
Steel: Indeed not, [...]

Steel: It’s a What Log?
Sapphire: A Web Log.
Steel: You know the oddest things.
Sapphire: You’ve never complained about the “oddest things” I know before.
Steel: Yes, well . . .
Sapphire: You’re blushing.
Steel: This form has some mechanical defects.
Sapphire: Don’t be so down on that form. I’m not.
Steel: Sapphire!
Sapphire: Yes. Well, these “Web” “Logs” began to appear around one [...]

Steel: It’s a perfectly ordinary stairwell in a perfectly ordinary skyscraper. And it appears to be, as humans reckon things, a perfectly beautiful day.
Sapphire: Yes. But . . . [shivers] . . . it shouldn’t be here. I can sense blank space above a smoking ruin. Pain and death and fear and – Oh, Steel! [...]

All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension.
Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel.
Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.