November 2012
1 post
6 tags
Vote
My hat is off to everyone that took the time to vote. You and I share common ground, even if we voted for different people, ideas, etc.
September 2012
2 posts
4 tags
Archaic
I love it when I look in the dictionary for a favorite word and it tells me that a definition, or the word itself, is archaic.
4 tags
Depressing, or our politicians are not being... →
Be honest with me. Tell me, “You won’t get Social Security or Medicare when you are old, but we’d like you to continue to pay into it to take care of those that need it.” And then, after you have been honest with me, let’s fix the programs or get rid of them for my generation.
August 2012
1 post
7 tags
Shortsighted
Often we (you, me, that guy over there eating the PB & J) decide that we have discovered some verity. Using this newly discovered principle we extrapolate further conclusions. Sometimes those conclusions are correct. Sometimes those conclusions miss minor or major details. These missed details can send us many degrees away from the truth.
I don’t like being many degrees away from...
May 2012
1 post
“the world goes on
the decline of western civilization continues
inhumanity...”
March 2012
1 post
8 tags
I develop software for a living, but....
I’ve often thought that I would like it very much, if one day per week, we were assigned some outdoor physical work: hoeing a garden, picking weeds, converting whale blubber into lighting oil, digging a tunnel to China, roofing a house, raising a barn, and/or mining precious metals. This would give us relief from our present projects. It would also allow the brain a chance to work on...
January 2012
4 posts
4 tags
I turned 30
Today they played the tornado sirens. It was dark outside. I was asleep. They eventually woke me up. They continued to sound the sirens. I thought about getting up, and checking for danger. I decided against it. It’s my birthday. I’m sleeping in today.
I’m honored they thought of me.
3 tags
I'm the 7%....
Today I realized that I’m part of the 7% of people that are alive. (If we assume that about 100 billion people have lived on the Earth.)
3 tags
Rise Twice
During the 8 years that I have been married, I have subjected my wife and kids to a hodgepodge of homemade pizza. They have been guinea pigs lovingly suffering my many pizza making experiments. I’ve tried to be gentle, but sometimes failure doesn’t taste very good. As a steadfast devotee of pizza, I love every attempt. Not a single moment of this pizza research has been wasted....
3 tags
Rational Numbers
September of 2011 was miserable for me. I didn’t lose my job. My loved ones were healthy and well. My misery wasn’t caused by any of the normal culprits. It was caused by the meteoric fall of the Atlanta Braves.
When the Braves entered September they had a record of 80 wins and 55 losses. They had a solid 8 1/2 game lead in the race for the wildcard. If the Braves had...
November 2011
1 post
Dear Joe Paterno's Statue →
October 2011
3 posts
5 tags
1 tag
September 2011
3 posts
10 tags
Tonight, game 162
If Huddy can’t do it, no one can.
5 tags
4 tags
August 2011
4 posts
Ron Paul 2012 →
Ron Paul, anyone?
I am seriously considering Ron Paul as my vote for President. His calls for limited government and common sense solutions strike me as the best way forward. He also seems like one of the few that sticks to his guns. If experience is our best guide in matters of politics, then his track record indicates he will be a reliable leader. I will continue to research all of the options available.
“I believe it may be laid down as a general rule that their [the people’s]...”
– Publius [Hamilton] in Federalist No. 27
How the vote went down... →
I’m not particularly pleased with this “deal”, but I guess that’s the beauty of a republic, you don’t always get what you want. I truly hope that this is just a beginning.
July 2011
7 posts
5 tags
4 tags
Ubuntu
I downloaded and installed the latest version of Ubuntu linux (11.04, I believe). It looks fantastic. The install was painless (except for an issue with a dying hard drive). I was really impressed. Some company out there needs to engineer some great hardware and put this OS on it. It’d be a great contender.
4 tags
3 tags
6 tags
5 tags
5 tags
June 2011
6 posts
5 tags
7 tags
2 tags
4 tags
3 tags
5 tags
May 2011
3 posts
6 tags
Out Like a Lion (Part 1)
On April twenty-seventh of twenty-eleven, a tornado siren displaced my usual alarm. The siren’s wail penetrated my sleep at ten minutes after six in the morning. It was not the first warning of the day, nor would it be the last. This alarm would sound repeatedly, into the evening. It would disturb our peace until the power failed.
4 tags
5 tags
January 2011
2 posts
2 tags
2 tags
Birthday
I turned 29. I was not particularly thrilled to be entering the concluding year of my twenties. You might even say I was somewhat depressed about it. But a ray of rejuvenating sunshine broke through the somber clouds. My wife and daughters decorated our dining room and my cake with an assortment of items bearing the image of “The Caped Crusader”. They had a banner, streamers,...
September 2010
1 post
Apps
I’ve been running around the past month with a Palm Pre Plus. Initially, I got the phone to bide my time until the iPhone arrives for Verizon. Each passing day I’ve become more convinced that WebOS is a fantastic mobile operating system.
July 2010
19 posts
4 tags
Disgusting →
5 tags
Amazon
Whenever we consider purchasing something, we usually check Amazon at some point preceding the purchase. They usually have a great price on whatever we’re looking at buying, but we don’t always end up purchasing it from Amazon. Many times we find fantastic deals on Amazon. Most of the items we do purchase ship and arrive fairly swiftly. Our experience with Amazon has been, overall,...
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
