Serenity… an expedition

The one problem with not watching much television (along with having limited internet access) is that most of the news I get lately is the “hair on fire” stuff. Or, it seems like that, anyway. Then again, thinking about that, when has it ever been any different? If it bleeds, and all that. Resist nostalgia [...]

A rare quiet moment here, thank the goddes. To make a change from the regular cold or flu that’s been hanging around all winter, a little stomach bug walked in the house with one of my grandchildren last week, when they returned from a few days spent at their dad’s house, and it’s jumped from [...]

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 old friends and colleagues [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]