And another thing that irks me: everything these days has to have a clock on it. Folks can’t leave well enough alone to just make things do what they’re supposed to do, that they have to stick a time-telling feature on there someplace, too. This becomes all the more irritating because of: 1. The device’s [...]

A Cubs-BoSox series would have been the most fun thing to watch in the world. A Yankees-Marlins series, I can’t work up enough enthusiasm to care one way or the other. And I’m willing to bet that the possible audience for this upcoming World Series is probably half what it would have been. It’s a [...]

As I was saying earlier, the powerful are generally pretty awful. And here is another bit evidence of that: middle-class home ownership has become more and more unaffordable, thanks to deregulation of the mortgage industry in the 1980s. Credit card debt is killing the US, and it’s because of 1980s credit card deregulation, not profligate [...]

You’d think that in Washington, when so many lies are being found out, that they’d give it up as a bad job. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. The Army has now started sending propaganda letters back home, from soldiers who didn’t write them. Intended to help bolster support for the war back home, they’re fictions put [...]

Isabel made a significant acheivement today, again freeing us up significantly in general life capabilities. Today, Izzy learned to drink from a straw. It doesn’t sound like much, of course, but it frees us up from having to have a sippy cup everywhere we go, and having a Bad Situation if we’re caught without one. [...]

So the big news is that Rush Limbaugh, inveterate liar, has admitted to being addicted to prescription drugs. And here’s what I think: it sucks that he’s a drug addict, and I hope he gains control of his addiction. The fact that he’s a rich famous guy means that he will get the chance and [...]

I’m a pretty quiet guy when it comes to my industry, computer and video game development. I have a lot to say if you buy me some beers, and if I’m sitting around mentally spending the millions given me by fictitious venture capitalists who trust my every move. I’ve been around in the industry for [...]

My boy Todd has started a blog, this.is.your.signal, linked on the left. Finally my friends from the Old Country are dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, producing web pages of omphaloskepsis that will result in the most populous profession of the 22nd century being Cultural Anthropologist (known to the space-citizens of the future [...]

My friend Maddy has a blog now, which you can find here (also linked on the left). Paul set her up and is hosting it, for which he is a stud. I’m having a hard time even saying, “Maddy has cancer,” and so by way of giving a prelude as to what you can find [...]

So my hair has grown an eighth of an inch and feels entirely different: I’ve forgotten what going skin-bald felt like, it being seven years or so since I gave up attempting to be strange and settled into old fartedness. Most folks at work asked me if I had lost a bet, although a couple [...]