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Children are forever. Some background: I married the most perfect woman on Earth in January of 1981. In December of that year, our first son was born. A couple of weeks later, Cathy had gone to the store while the baby slept. (Yes, he has a name. Yes, he had a name then. But it seemed Continue reading ∞ – 1 = ∞  I subscribe to 223 blogs via Google Reader. It’s been a very integral part of my day for some time now. I actually don’t have any idea how long it’s been, but it’s been at least three or four years. Obviously, not all of those blogs are updated on any given day, but when something new Continue reading The “New and Improved” Google Reader–NOT! My faithful BlackBerry Storm died yesterday. Croaked. Kicked the bucket. Bought the farm. Went off to the great network in the sky. Since it is de rigeuer for novelists these days to be poor, I can’t afford to replace it, at least until payday. Of course, the BBerry had to croak on the day after payday, Continue reading Chopped Off at the Waist This is the first in a semi-regular series of posts on the important things in life. (Don’t expect regularity in this series. You want regularity, look here.) Thinking. It’s like singing – we all can do it. But that doesn’t mean we’re all Jane Siberry or Joni Mitchell. As a matter of fact, only two of us Continue reading The Important Things: One — Thinking I followed a link in a blog I read to a blog I don’t read, and found an article by Martin Robbins that starts out by claiming that "Jenny Rohn noted last September that most prominent science bloggers on the main networks are male." (I haven’t followed that link.) It goes on to Continue reading Illogical logic Amanda Hocking and cell phone service? How’s he going to tie those together? Walk down the main hallway of any regional shopping mall in the known universe, and forty-eleven people are going to leap out from behind their little kiosks and hard-sell you on cell phone service. “Steps right up, ladies and gentlemen! Get yer snake Continue reading Amanda Hocking, Cell Phone Service, and Decisions In previous versions, you could have windows on different directories or drives open where they were when you last closed them, thus making drag-and-drop operations swift and intuitive. No longer. Every window opens in exactly the same sixe as the current window, with a position that is “cascaded” from the current one (“cascaded from” is Continue reading Just one in a long list of offensive things Microsoft has done in Windows 7 On the other hand, the post I wrote about ÜberTwitter for BlackBerry beating the bejabbers out of TwitterBerry is still drawing traffic, so maybe it should be a computer blog. But that’s not why I’m writing this. I’m writing this because Hewlett-Packard decided, in their infinite wisdom, that you don’t need the software functions your Continue reading This is not a computer blog, but… This sale will end a) when March does, or b) when I get around to it, whichever comes later. …but as usual, I have an opinion. And as usual, I’m going to rant about it share my valuable insight with you. Games are escapism. Games, like fiction, are escapism. We play games to get away from real life, to do things we cannot do, to perform socially sanctioned versions of things that would get us ostracized or Continue reading So I’m No Gameblogger… |
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