Category: General

In reading Michael Saine’s column in the August DDJ today he talks about Marshall McLuhan’s forecast that “The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself’.”  Quite timely since I was talking with one of the other project managers yesterday who was typing up a storm on a document when…

In the last couple of days I heard a term during a Tour de France interview with a rider that I had never heard before, “road furniture,” referring to medians, roundabouts, and other obstacles in the road.It’s a great term, and I can’t believe that I’d never heard it before.

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Now Bush has been planning to invade Iran, and asked Congress for a finding to give him the money to do it?  What the hell is going on in Washington, DC?  Do we really need to increase the amount of conflict in the Middle East?It’s time to stop this stupid war now!

My son arrived home from Purdue yesterday and told me about this T-Shirt site, Threadless T-Shirts, and as I was perusing the site I came across a couple of designs that I thought would be good to post for this weekend’s Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis.  Enjoy!Making MythologyGay Pride

Jill took this picture of the boys who were geeking together when Daniel came to visit for a week.  The picture isn’t the greatest quality since she took it with my iPhone, and it doesn’t have a flash.

Back when David Letterman had a daytime show (Jun-Nov 1980), he had a regular character named Mrs. Marv Mendenhall played by Edie McClurg.  This segment always cracked me up, so I did a search for Mrs. Marv on YouTube, and the Late show sites to see if I could find a clip, but none of…