Category: General

  • You are not alone

    The tide seems to have turned on the general acceptance that we aren’t the beginning and ending of intelligent life in the universe.  First at the end of April (25th) Stephen Hawking said, “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t…

  • Off he goes

    After being home for less than a week, Daniel left for Australia yesterday.  He has to write a journal for class while he is there, so we talked it over, and he decided that he would like to have a blog to record everything.  You can find it at Daniel Down Under.

  • Yoplait Delights

    They’ve been pushing the hell out of these 100 calorie yogurt snacks for some time in the media.  This morning there were some sitting around the office.  So I tried one.  My opinion: Don’t bother — eat some real yogurt, or a pudding cup.  Icky texture and flavor.

  • Baseball

    Now that we have outdoor baseball, all kinds of strange things are happening, like this flash mob organized by the Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association.

  • Happy Easter

    When I went down to make coffee this morning, there were two bunnies playing in the back yard.   I yelled to Jill to get her camera.  She went outside and captured one of the culprits in the yard.

  • Gonk

    The product code on this can of Diet Mountain Dew I was drinking the other day had the most interesting combination of letters.  G-0-9-K, or gonk.  I just thought it was a cool word, but apparently it was also a toy.

  • We’re all Bozo’s on this bus

    Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal.Corey Doctorow