10 Questions for Mr. & Mrs. Teabagger
Wherein I ask Mr. & Mrs. Teabagger a few questions about their lack of consistency on the issues.
August 2009 Books
River of Gods Beasts and Super-beasts The Status Civilization The Secret History of Moscow
Snow Leopard Tips & Tricks from Around the Interwebs
Here are some useful links for those who are either thinking of upgrading or have already upgraded: Macworld has a useful video about some of the new refinements A new website devoted to Snow Leopard Tips Macbreak Video’s demonstration of the new Services functionality Mac Life lists some of the new features, including the fact …
Writing Update for August 30
So today marks my second week of a new writing challenge. This go around is 300 Words for 30 days and I have to admit that the past week I’ve had to really force myself to sit down and write and have ended up not working very much on The Devious Astrolabe. The good new …
Some Thoughts on Snow Leopard
Yes, I’m just the kind of person who went out yesterday and bought Apple’s new operating system Snow Leopard and have spent the majority of last night and today playing around with the new features and setting my computer back up (since I decided to do a totally clean install and reformatted my hard drive …
Stranded on an Island, Do You Choose an iPod or an Ebook Reader?
Those who know me are aware of just how important music and stories are to me. If I were to be stranded on an island and could only have either a 160gb iPod filled with music, or an ebook reader filled with stories, I would be hard pressed to choose between the two.1 If I …
A New Poem
The Children of Thayer Street Bright confused and with brash energy; eyes of fire and terror. Young. Younger every year. A rustle in your heart, a whisper of lost lostness. These children of your middle years as they smile wide and smoke and wear self-involvement like a superhero cape slashing red and blue in the …
Project 365 Highlight – Relocated
I like this one a lot: Took it on my way to work yesterday on my iPhone and used the Helga filter in Camerabag.
Improving Memory
Informative and fun video on ways to improve memory
The Fatalism of Never Changing Minds
Recently, while I was at work, I overheard a co-worker’s conversation on the phone about how he never talks politics with friends or acquaintances because “you can never change anybody’s mind about stuff like that.” My first instinct was to agree with him, while my second was the realization that to accept this statement as …