Random Musings: Sprinklers update, Sports curse, Postage-paid protest
This weekend I got serious about sorting out my sprinkler system, and I think I’ve finally got it. The Internet came to my rescue yet again. I had spotted a valve inside the house that was either the main water cut-off, or the sprinkler line cut-off, but I didn’t know for sure. It had an [...]
Countdown to NaNoWriMo
As some of you know, I’ve committed to participating in NaNoWriMo this year. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writers Month, and is a program to support writers in their efforts by providing a yearly event wherein writers concentrate on completing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. The focus is on quantity, not quality. You [...]
Random Musings: HP PCs, Redbox, Ed Lee ad, Sprinkler systems, McRib
Meg Whitman, new CEO of HP, has decided to keep the embattled personal computer division. I had no idea HP has passed Dell, but then Dell has been struggling of late. It will be interesting to see what Whitman can come up with to make the PC market more profitable for the company. * * [...]
Random Musings: Loud shirts, Falkirk Wheel, World Series, Pain, Halloween gorging,
I’m wearing a loud shirt today. Not the flourescent-hued hawaiian variety, but the new, stiff, never-been-worn variety. Every time I move it makes rustling sounds (yes, Bill, it sounds like it’s stealing cattle). It’s rather distracting. I need to wash this shirt a couple of times before I wear it again. * * * * * For [...]
Book Review: Donald Rumsfeld, “Known and Unknown”
I will admit to not having paid much attention to Donald Rumsfeld when he was part of the Bush cabinet. I thought he was a bit more pithy than some, but really had no opinion about him specifically. By the time I really started paying attention to what was going on in Washington he had already [...]
Random Musings: Daddies, The 1%, Bad pet owners
It’s not easy being a parent on a good day, but being a parent from a distance is just plain tough for everyone. This video of a serviceman reading to his daughter by pre-recorded video warms the heart and reminds you it’s all worth it. * * * * * No really, seriously, this is [...]
Random Musings: Acting locally, Internet trolls, Cosmetic surgery
It’s one thing to want to save the rainforests. It’s another to take the time to find out why they are disappearing and work on the root causes. Often in developing countries the people may be fully aware that what they are doing is damaging things for the long term, but have no choice but [...]
Random Musings: Estonia, Movie Cliches, OWS Sociology, Khaddafy, Landmines
I stumbled across this article on Estonia, Finland’s sister country across the Baltic. The country is dragging itself out of the pit that decades of Communist rule dug for it, but it’s not easy. The country has a very interesting, unique attitude, however. Their prime minister admits they would love to do more for the [...]
Random Musings: Marriage, Rich people, OWS, Khaddafy & Assad
Couple married 72 years, and die within an hour of each other. * * * * * We’ve been hearing a lot lately about how the rich just keep getting richer. A new study suggests that might not be as true as it’s been. However, the commentator still can’t resist the standard party line that [...]
Random musings: Ballots vs. Bromides, SVU, kangaroos, VIP Gamestore
I don’t often agree with Barney Frank, but he’s got a point here: “We had an election last year in which people who disagree with them, and disagree with me and with you, got elected,” he told Maddow. “I don’t know what the voting behavior is of all these people, but I’m a little bit [...]
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