I always wanted my name painted on the office door.
“There’s nothing on [television] worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.” Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, to his children. In the 1930s.
Oooo. Independence Day sends me looking for flashlights. When I went to the various drawers this year, they were gone. Blasted kids. So plainly I need a new one. And one that can generate 65 lumens - enough to stop an attacker - must certainly be the ticket. And with this addition it can generate 120 [...]
According to this it’s worth $1,693.62. Isn’t that funny. I remember checking about three months ago and it was worth $0.00. So at this rate, I’ll be worth millions soon. It must be the rapier wit, piercing political insights, deep philosophical challenges, and world-moving technology assessments. Or a broken algorithm.
You didn’t even know I had one, did you? Permalinks are (in part) simply web page links that make a little more sense when you read them than index.php?p=123 does. I’m running my site on a Mac running system 10.4 (Tiger) and Apache, PHP, and MySQL (a combination sometimes referred to as MAMP). Anyway, WordPress 2 [...]
Why were so many people searching for “novovirus”, sometimes called the cruise ship sickness, and finding my blog? I posted about it once, barely mentioning it. Recently, I even posted my wonderment about the phenomenon. Well, I figured it out. It’s not novovirus, it’s norovirus. I misspelled it. And so were all those searchers. So all of [...]
My Lovely Bride’s post about me peaked a smidgen of curiosity, so I’ve decided to tell a wonderfully embarrassing story about myself. I hate a dirty windshield. My nice little gumball of a Nissan Sentra had an ever-dirty windshield. It drove me nuts. Seriously. As you will see. I decided it was all the drive-through, no-touch car [...]
Well, I think I do. Oh, I don’t know. Sigh. Politics. I decided to look more carefully through Alan Fine’s website. Wow. He’s running as a Republican, but really I can’t see why. He appears to be quite solidly a fiscally conservative Democrat. Which may be the only shot a “Republican” has to get into office [...]
In solemn warning: “Two women in the house, and one of them a red-head.” Indeed.
It was pretty funny to watch my site statistics take an abrupt drop mid-Friday. It’s vacation time! I worked a half-day yesterday, and in the morning the roads were wide open. Always a sure sign of a holiday weekend or a state employee strike. But I ended my half-day in Chaska, about 30 miles from home. [...]