What’s more exciting that a new software release? Well… o.k., lots of things are. Still, a good time can be had on a Sunday morning, cradling a cup of coffee, with a software install running on your favorite Mac. Imagine the Sunday news shows on in the background, the kids playing in the family room with the makeshift tent you helped them build out of linens, pillows and seat cushions…
There’s lots of news about government gone bad, but I thought this was an interesting example of a little bit of good it can do… when it’s responsive to the needs of it’s people. (I heard this on our local NPR station this morning.)
The story piqued my interest because I remember when school lunches in Pinellas whole-heartedly embraced the “ketchup as vegetable”…
You may not know it, but I’m the guy with the hair. For most of my life, for better or worse (mostly worse), I’ve been identified by my hair. In high school, my sister once famously pointed me out in a large crowd (at a football game) by saying, “look, he’s the guy with the hair.” Amongst family, it was the anglo-fro.
Yep, that was me.
I say that *was* me because my…
There was an interesting item on Slate’s Human Nature page this morning. It described recent research which suggested “Baby Einstein” was bad for babies:
Baby DVDs are worse than educational TV shows, because the DVDs “have little dialogue, short scenes, disconnected pictures and … linguistically indescribable images.” Researcher’s conclusion: Your kid is…
I bought frozen dinners to tide me over this week. Yep, all that talk about wanting to cook was nothing but a pile of steaming, reconstituted potato flakes.
With the kids gone with my wife to the Kauffman Family (v 2.2.2) ancestral home, I could have used the down time to hone my budding craft. Instead, I took the opportunity to slide deeper into laziness.
On the bright side, I saw something on…
MacDailyNews – Verizon says Apple iPhone defections to AT&T have slowed:
“Verizon saw negative so-called porting rates — meaning more Verizon customers were switching to AT&T than vice versa. But as the month progressed, Verizon said it has seen a shift back to what it calls normal switching rates.”
Personally, I never considered switching from Verizon to AT&T…
FEMA Knew Of Toxic Gas In Trailers – washingtonpost.com
I don’t know if I’ve said it before (here), so I’ll say it now just in case: sometimes I can’t help but wonder if conservatives in government sabotage their agencies and programs on purpose… in order to prove their point that “less government is better government.”
Think about it. In a perverse…
For years I have blogged in total anonymity. I blogged before I knew I was “blogging,” posting random messages to my first site hosted by AOL those many moons ago. For a long time my only regular visitor was my sister… that’s DOCTOR sister to you! Several years back my readership doubled, then trippled… and oh my God… rocketed to darn near close to half a dozen…