Apparently some graduate schools, principally law schools, have found a way to combine two laws so their students get to shift the entire cost of tuition onto the taxpaying public…

http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/141103/

Another case of the law of unintended consequences.

Mirrored from The Black Horse of the Blog World.

Baby is sick, wife is sick, air conditioning is broken.

Mirrored from The Black Horse of the Blog World.

My son turned one this morning at 6:58 am.

There is so much in that statement.  I hope to take the time later to unpack that a little bit.


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You know, my hobbies are fairly apoltical ones.  I am not registered with a party, I don’t go to rallies, my volunteerism has different outlets, and I don’t work for the government or in the military. So, unless you count my consumption of news and interest in events to be a hobby, there really aren’t many intersections between politics and my ( Read more... )

I think this article from The Atlantic starts in a way that describes very well how I feel right now. “ We know what happened in Boston; we do not yet know what the hell happened in Boston.”  All we know at this time is the tragedy of it all, with none of the explanation.  Almost all we have is questions, and sadness.  But we also have a lot of ‘We ( Read more... )

Happy Easter/Passover/Spring/Sunday to you!  Every year we each paint an egg.  This is what I made this year.  Because of the way it was hanging I couldn’t get the best side, but it is approximately the same thing on four sides.


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A few recent pictures of the Jaegermonster, no additional text.  Submit your caption suggestions below!


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Just a question as I start packing for the weekend.

Did I promise to bring you something or lend you something?

Please remind me.

Mirrored from The Black Horse of the Blog World.

I hope this is the last time I can ever measure snowfall in Jaegermonsters. *  But he seems to like it!  Don’t be fooled by the camera angle, the snowline is about as tall as he is, and drifts and shovel piles are higher.

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Jaegermonster is six months old.  Crazy, I know.  So far, so good.

He’s now up to thirteen and a half pounds, and a few inches over two feet in length.  He’s more than doubled in weight and gained a third in length.  Good thing this slows down at some point or we’d need a forklift to carry him by the time he’s old enough for kindergarten.

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