NEP News!

It's time to grab a favorite drink, settle back and read a nice long essay by Neil Peart - now with baby pictures!

Bubba's Bar-n-Grill is open for business

Get thee there now and read one of the best writers around.

Bubba's Book Club

Neil Peart has some new book reviews up.

The quest for the Eye of Satan

The latest from Neil Peart, who changed the color scheme of his updates! It used to be a nasty blinding white-on-black that left an afterimage when I looked away from the computer; now it's a readable dark red on gray parchment. Thanks, Neil!

Neil Peart can flat-out write

New essays at NEP News and Bubba's Book Club. Now if he'd just do something about that blinkin' fargin' blinding white-on-black color scheme in NEP News.

In NEP News he mentions Deal's Gap, North Carolina, whose 318 turns we navigated downhill in a Dodge Grand Caravan loaded with camping gear back in 2002, on our Tsali trip. Near the bottom of the "dragon's tail" we watched an old bald guy in a midlife-crisis Corvette miss a turn and head off the road.

How to lose traffic and alienate people

Amen.

I'd add three items:

• If you make music come out of my speakers unexpectedly I'll never visit your website again
  
• White text on black is unreadable. I can copy the text and paste it into a text editor, but there's only one d*mn white-on-black page I care enough about to do that.
  
• Wordpress's "snapshots" link annoyer. When you accidentally run the mouse over a link, everything stops while some utterly useless preview of the link's webpage appears in a popup. Each popup has a mechanism to disable the annoyance, but it doesn't work. I used to try to disable it every time I visited Jeff Culbreath's otherwise-fine blog, but I've given up - now I just try to navigate carefully to avoid his links since there's a penalty associated with each.