Category: Miscellaneous
World Blogger Championship of Online Poker
January 7th, 2010, No Comments
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! PokerStars.com is the home of Free Online Poker Games, bloggers can play for free in the exclusive WBCOOP tournament, register here to play: WBCOOP
Registration code: 896782
Google Reader annoyance
July 17th, 2009, No Comments
Sometime recently I noticed a change int he way the ‘Mark all as read’ button works in Google Reader. I used to be able to press it, have all the articles in the listing marked as read, and then go back and hit ‘m’ to set one or a few of them back to ‘unread’ [...]
The Whirlwind that is GA
June 27th, 2009, 1 Comment
Well, I have a few minutes downtime when I’m not totally exhausted so I can write something here, finally. I had plans to do a daily post sharing my impressions of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into delivering all the GA website reporting and video streaming. That plan crumbled upon contact with GA. I actually [...]
Cops gone Wild?
May 28th, 2009, No Comments
This is nuts. Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer pulls an ambulance over for failing to yield, while the ambulance is transporting a patient to the ER, and assaults one of the medics after the officer tries to ticket the ambulance. I’m stunned that cops would harrass EMTs while the EMTs are trying to do their job. [...]
Ants in the sink?
May 4th, 2009, 2 Comments
Weirdness abounds. I’ve dealt with ant intrusions into my home while living in various apartments all my life. It’s just something that happens occasionally. A call to the apartment complex to get the exterminator out usually ends things quickly.
Last week, I experienced a first. It appears that large black ants have taken up residence in [...]
On letting the radicals control speech
August 21st, 2008, No Comments
Once we start letting the fear of offending some group of people control what books are published, where does it stop? Books are about ideas. I might viscerally hate the ideas in a book, but I don’t think my hatred of those ideas should prevent the book from being published or sold. [...]
The Modern Flying Experience
August 9th, 2008, No Comments
Someone finally captured the essence of air travel today.
Spiders!
April 29th, 2008, 2 Comments
I’ve been a fan of Dave Brady’s Insect Picture of the Day website since I first ran across it. It’s in my “read every day” folder in Google Reader. He’s inspired me to try my hand at insect photography and I got my first chance recently. I own a Canon Powershot A610 [...]
Arthur C. Clarke, RIP
March 20th, 2008, No Comments
I can’t think of any other author who had a stronger influence on me than Arthur C. Clarke. His was some of the first science fiction I read and I still regularly return to some of his collections of short stories. I must have read “The Nine Billions Names of God” the first [...]
A UU Postsecret!
January 3rd, 2008, No Comments
This past Sunday’s selection of secret-bearing postcards includes one from a UU!
