Morning Mood
The camera can not capture what I see. Pouring rain outside, slow and steady and constant. Leaves surfing the light breeze. The slower drip of water from the br...
Category: General
Would You Rather
I say this every time because it’s true: the pain I can deal with. It’s the vision loss that bothers me. There’s a question — I think of...
What Are You Here For?
I have, since I found out about it, wanted to go to space. I remember, vividly, watching Star Trek in color in the basement of a friend who had television and s...
Broken Windows Theory of Web Site Management
Once one spam comment gets through, all your base are belong to us. Oh well. I should have disabled comments if I was going to abandon this building for a coupl...
Chaperone on the Field Trip
Without constant external stimulation, we might have to face the anxious terror of consciousness. And so the increasingly urgent demand in a first grader’...
Missed Connections
When I’m driving along the road, I wonder, “Where are they going? What do they do? How is their life?” When someone brushes by you at the mark...
You Missed a Spot
In housework, as in any field primarily concerned with the reduction of chaos, the work itself is not noticed; only the failures are. Take a few moments today t...
Public Embarrassment
This needs a picture. The corner grocery has placed anti-theft devices around the pregnancy tests. Has the embarrassment of purchasing a pregnancy test caused a...
Third-Party Content Removed
I have removed all advertising from my website. I’ve had a website online since 1996 or so, and since then I’ve made perhaps $3.00 from affiliate ad...
One Day Spam Will Once Again Be Just a Luncheon Meat
Dear Spammer: You’re wasting your time, but not mine. All posts here that Akismet thinks are spam are automatically deleted. Fuck you, and the horse you r...
On Plagiarism and Linkage
I’m disturbed by what seems to be the very common practices on today’s Internet of copying another’s work without acknowledging the source, of...
A Short Networking Quiz
1) An essential characteristic of UDP is that it is a) unreliable b) undecipherable c) unconscionable d) unwieldy 2) This characteristic is a result of which qu...
A $50 Gift Card
Frankly, I don’t understand why people buy gift cards. I understand why they give them, but not why they buy them. Gift cards are given because giving the...
In Memoriam
Back before Twitter, there was jogger.jabber.org. September 11th 10:40:10 AM R.I.P. WTC 🙁 10:06:15 AM Looks like most of the news sites have been /.d. Guess no ...
In the long history of Man’s inhumanity to Man, it is ever so
While reading In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Phillipines, I came across mention of a disturbingly familiar topic. War is hell. From The New York Ti...
Grandmother’s Fruit Cobbler
1 c. sugar 1 c. flour 1 c. milk 1 stick butter 3 tsp. baking powder 1 qt. fruit, sweetened Heat sweetened fruit in saucepan. Melt butter in deep baking dish (at...
Sometimes the Graphical Interface is Non-Optimal
mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_approved = 'spam'; Query OK, 1758 rows affected (0.16 sec)
Footprint per Capita
The newspaper had a map of each country’s carbon footprint per person. Something like this one from Wikipedia. This is one of those graphics that misleads...