Missing parents
Today would have been my father's 71st birthday. It's also the 30th anniversary of my mother's death. I was mostly...
Romance novel report
I mentioned a week ago that Sonya, in consultation with Twig, had loaned me half a dozen romance novels. These...
Sick, tired, and spammed
My blogs came under heavy comment-spam attack tonight—looks like I got about 700 spam comments in the past four hours,...
On scientific dissent
Happened across this while looking up something else: But being a dissenter from orthodoxy is not difficult; the hard part...
T-shirt idea
Sometime in the past couple weeks, Kam was moving some boxes around. She looked at the dolly that she was...
Links: tech stuff
Some technical and vaguely tech-related items, mostly from a couple months back: IBM discovers the business value of editors. OkCupid...
This week’s best TV aww moment
On Undercovers, after a dramatic opening and a “Three days earlier” card, we see Steven and Samantha (the protagonists, a...
Face Movies
I've been meaning for months to post about an awesome new feature in Google's Picasa photo-management software: Given a set...
Links: political
Some political and quasi-political items: Interesting discussion of tensions within the Tea Party as they settle in to become part...
Links: video roundup
Some videos: Google Demo Slam: a contest among short videos of demos of various tech topics. The demos are fun...
Back at work
My leave of absence is over. Went back to work on Monday. Spent Monday and Tuesday mostly catching up on...
Some post-election marriage-equality notes
A few gubernatorial election results relevant to marriage equality: In Rhode Island, pro-marriage-equality Republican-turned-Independent Lincoln Chafee won the gubernatorial election....