Year: 2009
The Triumphant Return of Friday Catblogging
Yeah, it’s been a while, but I thought it was time to hop back on the catblogging train. This week, a brief introduction to the cast: Buffy In Among My Books Ripley Takes a Break Dozer Contemplating…Sleeping Probably More photos of the kitties coming next week. Update: The Friday Ark is up. Update: Kip blogs… Read more
EFCA and Secret Ballots
I disagree with a lot of what Lindsay Beyerstein writes, but she’s still one of the most thoughtful people on my blogroll. However, she gets a bit goofy when it comes to labor unions. Consider yesterday’s post about the Employee Free Choice Act: Management groups object to majority signup (aka “card check”) for the simple… Read more
Stuck In Computer Limbo
A couple of weeks ago, my main computer started crashing. Sometimes Windows would just hang, not responding to the keyboard or mouse, and sometimes I’d walk in to find it sitting there displaying the Blue Screen of Death. This happened two or three times a day. I’m running a pair of Seagate Barracuda 500GB hard… Read more
Fatal Distraction
I just read a story in the Washington Post that’s going to stay with me a long, long time. It’s by Gene Weingarten, it’s brilliantly written, and it will break your heart. You have been warned. The story is about people who have accidentally left their babies in their cars in the heat, with fatal… Read more
Pluto and the Final Stage of Grief
I’ll tell you, I didn’t have much Love for the Pluto haters. But I’ve come to accept the truth of it. Pluto crosses the orbit of Neptune, it’s tilted out of the ecliptic, there’s other crap all around it, and it’s small—almost as small as its moon, which doesn’t even orbit a point inside Pluto.… Read more