Eclipse
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but there was a total eclipse of the sun this week (on Monday, August 21st, 2017)!! Anna and I and some friends drove up to Wyoming on Sunday, and on Monday morning found a …
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In Print!
I just had a short story published in Phantaxis magazine! The story is called Playmates (as in childhood playmates, not the R-Rated kind!). I used to write a lot of fiction, but stopped for many years. As I now have …
Underground, overground…
We’ve been clearing out the remnants of my cousin’s stuff after moving him into a nursing facility. If you are having trouble letting go of things, I highly recommend spending a few weeks clearing out a hoarder’s house. It makes …
Patently Absurd
Well, I officially now hold a patent – US Patent #9,612,825 – Systems and Methods for Merging Metadata-Based Applications! I wouldn’t bother reading it if I were you–I wrote the thing, but after the lawyers were done with it, I …
Don’t Press This Button…
We were recently in California, and spotted this button in the elevator in our hotel. The urge to press it was almost overwhelming. I can only assume that it turns the elevator into a much more epic, adventure-filled ride. On …
Frost
We had a big frost storm the other day. No point to make other than it was really pretty. Note that these are color pictures. This was the grass of our lawn:
Morbid Anatomy
The last time we were in New York, we went to the taping of a radio game show called Ask Me Another, which was a blast, and I highly recommend. However, we got to the place (a pub called The …
Defective Dinosaur Repair
My sister came to me with her defective dinosaur. She had bought it on sale, then discovered that it was missing the cover to its battery holder. It would obviously be inconvenient if the batteries fell out while in the …
Automatically clear Windows logon warning message
I don’t know how widespread a problem this is, but I frequently log on to domains directly or via VPN for clients, and end up with the company’s corporate warning message on my machine on startup. Bad enough to get …
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Really, really great…
We’ve been working on moving my cousin into a long-term care facility, and in the course of doing this, we’ve been going through a lot of old photos. This one is truly incredible though — this picture shows my great-great …