Where Are The Wise Men?

There is no way to make this long story short with out missing something important. I’m sorry about that.

Just last week, our cheapo vacuum died. We knew that it was cheap when bought it, but we thought it was going to last more than a year. Well, it did — but not [...]

As I translate my notes into a presentation for my upcoming talk, I was in a quandry on what to use. Sure, I could use OpenOffice Impress and make a PowerPoint-style presentation, but that still isn’t useful if you don’t have OpenOffice and, frankly, I don’t enjoy having to tweak slides. I’ve made PowerPoint/Impress [...]

Four Things About Me: (Things you may not have known about me…..)

A survey from my wife. I thought this was better put on my blog than in email.

Four jobs I have had in my life



Orderly in a hospital
A world traveler, teaching [...]

It’s almost the end of the summer and I hadn’t grilled anything over charcoal. I love my gas grill but, really, nothing beats the flavor that charcoal adds to grilled meat.

Gina had found this recipe on Friday and got the chicken marinating. When I got home from work, I told Gina I wasn’t [...]

Pluto mnemonic device contest results (kottke.org)

The winner:

My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums.

‘Nuff said

I probably shouldn’t post a link to Woot because you may get addicted.  I wouldn’t say I’m addicted to Woot, I’m just saying that I’m very interested in it.

Woot has an interesting model — they only sell one thing a day and they generally sell it at a discounted price.  Once they are out of [...]

Leah is loving the MacBook Pro — she can run the trackpad like nobody’s business. If you get her to PBS Kids she can find whatever game she wants.

She also loves Photo Booth and you can see some of her recent work here. My only part is to start Photo Booth. Leah [...]

A post I keep coming to again and again is this post at FreeMacWare.com where they list their best of the best. It’s a great list of the really good freeware for just about everything. Just ask Gina how good Pac the Man X is.

You may have noticed that my feeds have started looking different — an “Email me” and “add to my del.icio.us” button have appeared at the bottom and now daily summaries of my own del.icio.us links have appeared over night. If you go to my blog, none of these things are there.

Well, I’ve started using [...]

Things didn’t work out for me at Union Pacific (i.e. contract problems) so my employeer, Bass and Associates have put me on the bench, which means they call me when they need me. So I’ve been working on stuff around the house.

Yesterday I mowed the lawn, which generally takes two hours if I bag [...]