Author: Will Cox

Bill Amend‘s Foxtrot had a sequence from March 1st to 4th where Jason sets up a coffee shop in the kitchen. He discovers that the demand curve is inelasti...

Joe passed on this critical information about the Waterfall 2006 conference in Niagara. I hope to see y’all there.

Rick mentioned this journal of a father who lost his six year-old daughter to meningitis. … What can I say? I’ve been crying.

John Gruber points to P. Z. Myers’s piece, “Richard Cohen, advocate for ignorance,” in response to this work of Richard Cohen’s. Mr. Coh...

Do we assume that because we have difficulty learning a thing the children will also have difficulty?

I bought this Listen & Read Uncle Wiggily Bedtime Stories for the girls. Turns out the 2006 Honda Odyssey does not have a cassette player. We hadn’t ...

One of the first things that children learn through instruction is to recognize shapes, both plane and solid, though they are not often given the names of the s...

You can’t get fired for buying Microsoft I hear through the grapevine that there is evidence that the postulate is false.

So Google has a personal web page product, aside from Blogger. Apparently it’s a little over-loaded at the moment. Somehow I think the implementation will...

Interesting show on the History Channel about the effects of the Little Ice Age. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has a disturbing collection of papers ab...

I turned off auto-run on my Windows desk the other day. Auto-run is a feature which permits the operating system to start an application when a disc is inserted...

The Eljer Patriot toilet has no power. It stops up — frequently. Unless you love plunging after each attempt to flush, and have a mop, avoid it.

We saw Curious George on my birthday. It’s funny! Roger Ebert doesn’t think it appeals to all members of the family, but I do. Maybe he needs a todd...

Damn. I got caught; Rick tagged me! Four jobs I’ve had Cashier Secretary Pre-Press Operations Sysadmin Dad Oops, that was five. Four movies I can watch over a...

I ran across a blurb in the paper about Louisville’s new art museum, by the same firm which worked on Seattle’s public library. It will be housed in...

Whilst reading the HTTP/1.1 specification for something else, I noticed that the Retry-After header may be used with 3xx redirection status codes. This field MA...

Avoid Folgers French Vanilla. It has a smell I can’t place, but isn’t coffee. Perhaps ground wood chips? Perhaps an inferior bean? Perhaps unfair tr...

This quiz at Manor House doesn’t have my father’s profession. What? Clergy don’t have children?

If you’ve an interest in historical trivia, the United States Census Bureau has a very interesting series called Profile America [podcast]. Monday, Januar...

World oil prices peaked in real terms in 1980 at about $90 per barrel. In 1977, U.S. imports were 6.6 million barrels per day. By 1985, imports had been cut in ...