So we lost our temp guy today, a late-middle-agish man who was sharing the other half of my "office."  He had been planted there and the division chief said I might want to tap him for instruction in R Studio, but he had not seemed talkative, and we had restricted out interactions to "Hello" and "Have a Good Night."  Now, you are under no ( Read more... )

So what is the first, the basic level of equipment, a person should get if they want to film things?

Dr. Chaos suggested that I might enjoy The Waking Up podcast by Sam Harris, because, while he is very vocal about his atheism, and I am very vocal about there being no way to be sure there is no God, that he reminded her of arguing with me.  I did.  It was a hoot ( Read more... )

So I bolt out of the house, grab the Washington Post in its plastic sleeve from off the lawn, swing into my car and head for the Metro to go to work on Thursday ( Read more... )

Still discussing BMWs.  Now considering the used Douchemobile.  If we get it, I'll have to think of a new name for it.  Sporty-kins.  Zipmobile.  Bavaricar.  Working on it.

A friend sent me a cartoon accompanied with his opinion that men tolerate their wives and girlfriends having a fling with another women better than with another man because they cannot imagine she is having real sex, if there is no penile penetration involved. Some kind of failure of imagination that sex could actually occur without their penis ( Read more... )

Mud
by
Polly Chase Boyden

Mud is very nice to feel
All squishy-squash between the toes!
I’d rather wade in wiggly mud
Than smell a yellow rose.

Nobody else but the rosebush knows
How nice mud feels
Between the toes.

I wanted a record of Adam West passing away today, aged 88, three marriages, four kids, some unknown number of grandkids and great-grandkids. It struck me when I heard he had died that, in some sense, I didn't want to live in a world without Adam West. I would like for him to be out there somewhere, still game, unselfconscious, and flexible enough ( Read more... )

This is a real bulletin sent to parent of kids in the Grand Forks, North Dakota, area this week ( Read more... )

One more time ( Read more... )