I finished the Battlestar Galactica series last night, and without going into details and spoiling it for others I would like to say a couple of general things about the impressions it has left on me ( Read more... )

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I dislike shopping. Well, let me elaborate. I dislike shopping for clothes. No, that is still not right. I dislike shopping for shirts. Hmmm... You know, really, I only dislike shopping for shirts for work. And maybe dislike is not right. I loathe shopping for shirts for work. Yep. I like shopping for electronics, books, music, food, ( Read more... )

I have trouble posting when things are going well, and right now things really are going very well indeed.

Puscifer - The Humbling RiverNature, nurture, heaven and home ( Read more... )

I've been listening to podcasts last night and tonight about health insurance.  Some interesting facts, before I get too boring:

Blue Cross was the first health insurance company, and was started at Baylor University of Dallas for local teachers before the great depression.  After WW2, an IRS bureaucrat said that companies got tax breaks for ( Read more... )

Today was great, I had plans to be taken to lunch by dragonsbones  and she would not tell me where she was planning to take me.  Upon picking me up from work, I discovered she had planned on a picnic at a botanical garden in Grapevine but the weather did not permit;  instead we had a picnic in a Starbucks, and it was very nice!  There was salmon dip (yum), ( Read more... )

I have not posted for quite a while, and I suppose this is to be expected because things have been going really well.  Life is good.

I recently saw this re-invention of the fan by Dyson.  This guy is a freaking genius.  Here is a youtube video that shows the technology:

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I was recently in a movie theater and they had these Dyson hand dryers.  I  ( Read more... )

I posted this years ago, early in the life of my journal I think (I'm too lazy to go look).  It deserves a repost, because it reminds me very much of my cat.


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My local record store that I've been visiting since high school closed... It is the end of an era, they are all going the way of the dinosaurs.