Posting will be light and probably intermittent for the next few weeks. I just started a fairly intense (but lucrative in the short term--something desperately needed right now) project that's going to consume most of my time. I'll try to keep up with columns, but blogging will be extremely limited until mid-December.

[Update in the late evening}

I'm asked in the comments section about the origin of the phrase "free ice cream."

It was (who else?) Lileks.

He noted on his bleat that he wouldn't be putting up much of a bleat, due to other commitments, and then said something to the effect that he felt like he was apologizing about not providing free ice cream:

As much as I feel guilty about light bleatage, I?ve always thought that the phrase ?blogging will be light today? is akin to saying ?the free ice cream cones will be 27 percent smaller today.? It?s still free ice cream. Whether the following qualifies as the equal of sugary chilled confection is up to you, of course.

Who started calling it 'free ice cream' first and what was the context?

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