Serenity… an expedition

At least one of my classes seems to be chock full of them. Pro-death penalty, anti-choice and who knows what else besides. There are a few other classmates who seem to be a bit more moderate but I appear to be the only flaming lefty liberal.
Whatever happened to college campuses being hotbeds of Marxists, [...]

Almost every time I think of doing the Twitter thing again, I get the whale.
 
Highly annoying, because my desire to re-enter the stream is very fleeting and by the time I can, I no longer want to.
But I miss my friends.

Well, maybe, I don’t know – but the study behind this London Sunday Times story wouldn’t support the conclusion.

Craig Silverman at CJR has this somewhat odd story:
Dr. Aaron Sell, a researcher at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, has been hearing from a lot of [...]

When I realized that tonight is the SOTU I thought maybe I’d left it too late (I have not, in fact, even started it yet) but then I realized that, no, the timing was perfect.
Regardless of what he says this evening (I understand that part of it is admitting to people’s anger, and I guess [...]

I am not sure the proliferation of software geared toward helping you organize yourself is all that good of thing. Too many choices. Or maybe not enough choices to fit the needs? I would love to have just one program that is able to do everything I need it to do.
I thought, maybe, I had [...]

Once again.
 cartoon from toothpastefordinner.com
Haiti hurt my heart. I’m not sure why as I don’t, as far as I know, know any Haitians, nor have I ever been there. It just did. And unlike many writers/bloggers, when big, bad things hit, my first instinct isn’t to write about it, to react instantly – it’s to go [...]

What an abominable tragedy. My thoughts are with everyone there and their loved ones around the world.
Here is a Daily Kos diary with links to places to offer help and other info.
Twitter.

Really, two. And I’ve just noticed that they both begin with “somewhere”. What they end with I don’t know, as I know few of the words to either.
Anyway, one is the old standard “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. That one I am more familiar with. The other, “Somewhere Beyond the Sea” I must have heard [...]

I’m posting from the blackberry again so, short and sweet.
General kvetch – for a distance learning institution where students presumably are accessing the site from a variety of devices, they (University of Phoenix) sure have a crappy website. It’s annoying from just a regular computer – from this device it’s the pits.
I have now found [...]

I just got a Blackberry (cheap! With c ontract – $30) and I am testing to see how this will work to post in a pinch. Especially as I have been having quite a few pinches lately.
Anyway, it’s not something I’d want to do often or for writing long things, but it’s not so bad. [...]