We have a frog in our pond! I can only assume spontaneous generation. He (or she) doesn’t seem to bother the fish (we have 3 goldfish and 3 Koi, which I’m told are different things).          …

Okay, it’s not actually falling down, but since it is made of Lego, it is somewhat more fragile than the original. Anna got this set for me for my birthday, and I spent somewhere between eight and ten hours putting…

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…

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…

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…

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:

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…

This is a shirt I made a few months ago after a particularly difficult meeting! One of the things I find funny is that people frequently don’t read the whole thing — they read the first line, and then are…