Common sense is hardly common…
I am feeling "fat", and I know exactly what I need to do to fix it. Eat less junk (not necessarily less *food*, just less junk), and be more active. …
Burned kitten receiving first-rate care
My previous post was angry, and looked at the worst aspects of the human animal and how some can sink to levels that might drive me to violence against them. …
If I met these two witches with a gun in my hand…
Two darling teenage girls out for a walk saw a stack of cages containing feral cats. As a light hearted lark, they poured lighter fluid on one and set it…
Warm enough for you?
It was 38 degrees Celsius here on Wednesday. It was about 32 today, and about the same on Monday and Tuesday. I like warm weather, but "warm" to me is…
String Theory
I spent an hour or so today looking at xkcd, which is a stick-person comic for geeks. Some of the humour is somewhat esoteric: math and statistics jokes, for example. …
iPhone battery- iPod part 2
Apple learned a great deal from the battery complaints that users had about the early iPods. First, instead of just making it challenging to get at the battery in the iPhone,…
Are we talking to ourselves?
I read a blog entry today giving an opinion regarding a book on the topic of whether or not user-created content is killing our culture (Is the web killing our…
America: Police State
As a Canadian, I suffer from every little twitch our American friends make. And as I see more and more evidence of the devolution of that once free (if somewhat…
Sasquatch!
I captured this photo of an elusive wild mammal in our backyard about three weeks ago Is it a Sasquatch? An alien? Elvis??!! No, it's a raccoon...and here is a…
War and Peace finished…
It took me over two weeks, which is a long time for me, but I finished reading War and Peace (the Project Gutenberg edition) yesterday. I even wrote a one…