Category: General

As part of the premier of The Simpsons Movie, Burger King put up the site Simsonize Me.  So I thought I’d give it a whirl, and Simpsonized myself with a picture taken by my friend and neighbor Justin Grierson.  When I showed my son Daniel the pictures, he said that it didn’t look like me,…

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.George EliotPersonally, I have found relief in music for grief, albeit temporary

Following a misguided post from a headhunter I know (Lonny Gulden) to the Ruby Users of Minnesota (RUM) site — he was looking for Java developers — he was bounced off the list, and his privileges revoked as being inappropriate poster.  Not being one to leave well enough alone, he flamed the group with the…

picture taken by my friend Duane McDowell, via email, Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:18:17 -0700

Henry Schoolcraft (with help from the Ojibwa) finds the headwaters of the Mississippi River this month in 1832 and names them with a contraction of the words veritas (truth) and caput (head); Itasca.This Month in History, Smithsonian Magazine, July 2007The state was established as a territory in 1849 and as a state in 1858.

When our lawn mower broke, and wouldn’t run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed.  But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the truck, the car, playing golf — always something more important to me.Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. …

I’ve been trying to get my brother to snap a picture of this sign, which is prevelant in New Hampshire, for some time.This sign used to be labeled, “Slippery when wet,” but now is labeled, “Grooved shoulders;” neither of which make any sense.You’d think that they would use a square wave under the wheels for…