Vikings: A Hoot a Minute

Spam-Loving Vikings?

I came on my blog today to rant about those wonderful folks who post comments where the sender says something vaguely complementary about your latest post and includes a link to one of those sites you never want to visit.. the one's with tracking cookies and worms and other delicious things.  if nothing else they waste your time trying to decide if this one or that one is legit.  As soon as I opened my Blogger Dashboard I discovered a red bordered box reassuring me and all my fellow blogger types that new spam filters are in place ...

That's great news, since it is tempting to  beef up your moderation.. is it OK to talk about beef and spam?  I suppose if there is one rule of thumb, it is probably that if the person commenting includes a web address in the message, it's a come on.

Harold Bluetooth

I was telling my husband about the book I am reading now, Mother of Kings by Poul Anderson.  It is about the witchy wife of Eric Bloodax  and, you guessed it, the mother of several kings.  I made r reference to another character, namely Harold Bluetooth.  Jim's response to that was, "And I suppose Harold Bluetooth went around Denamrk connecting to things wirelessly?" 

That's almost as funny as Futurama's robot baseball player, Wireless Joe Jackson.

The book is terrific, by the way.  Amazing use of prose to suggest the Norse storytelling and verse style.