End of Silence

Our lawnmower died at the end of the summer last year. It gave 7 or 8 years of service and will be missed. I put off getting a replacement until the Spring and I’m glad that I did after reading this story. I’m buying a Snapper. Coincidentally, I heard this story on the way home [...]

More proof that cats are evil.

Merry Christmas to all. It’s been a pretty good year if we don’t take the house into consideration. The house has been very bad. Despite giving it a new roof and a new coat of paint in January, it rebelled and flooded the entire downstairs in March. We’d forgiven it until the a/c and heat [...]

I’ve got two data points from the past couple of weeks that prove that Amazon has kick ass customer service.
First, I ordered a DVD and had it delivered to work. I obsessively check tracking information and, on the day that it was supposedly delivered, I found nothing. I waited a day, checked with all the [...]

I don’t know how to explain it. I’m generally on the somewhat leading/bleeding edge with technology. However, sometimes I’m really a luddite. I didn’t really go full-blown tech geek until 1996 or 1997, which means that I think I was a little old for the arrival of mp3s. I confess that there’s just something about [...]

The Boy started at a new school today. I’m guardedly optimistic. The teachers seemed cool.
The big news of the weekend was lunch and a screening with John Kricfalusi of Ren & Stimpy fame. You can check out the recap and photos.
I’m still behind on the Chicago posts and I should have pictures of the kids [...]

Inspired by Sean (although I’m headed in the opposite direction)

Inspired by Sean (although I’m headed in the opposite direction)

I’ve mentioned before that my father-in-law works for NPR’s Morning Edition and that I sometimes hear him on-air. Well, it seems that everyone I know is getting their NPR on this month. Sean, founder of Metroblogging, parent of Austin Metroblogging, is in two pieces by Xeni Jardin for Day to Day and Scott just recorded [...]

The site is slow to load today because two of the external sites from which I pull content seem to be down. The moblog block on the right is pulling from Flickr and the block below it pulls from AllConsuming. If they don’t return in the next couple of days, I’ll yank the blocks.
I can’t [...]