Just so you know -- those of you who know me in Real Life -- I got a haircut. It's short. Really short.In response to my ever-growing forehead I made a change (my first hair style change since I grew and then clipped off my tail in 1988-89). The way have been wearing my hair is an "Ivy League" cut. It's now a "Military Ivy League". Not exactly ( Read more... )

Hmmm, maybe I need to explain that. Sunil is the source of an endless stream of questions. Many of them are real "thinkers". He's also learned that more of his questions get answers if he paces himself ( Read more... )

I was just on a wander around YouTube looking at electricity and magnetism videos and the ad below popped up. I -- rather obviously -- am not a Mt. Holyoke graduate. But ashacat is. She watched one Mt. Holyoke video while I was signed on. Apparently Google's advertising algorithms are keen enough to suss out that if you're willing to watch the ( Read more... )

My process of getting my head back into my old job took a couple steps forward today. I finally picked up the stack of telecom bills that had been growing on my visitor's chair, started sorting them and then sorting out the online access accounts for the bills that no longer show up in dead tree format. And, this afternoon, I got to drag two ( Read more... )

My nephew (who is now 20 and between his sophomore and junior years in college) recently gave us his big bin of Legos. After sifting through them to weed out broken bits, junk, etc, the next step was a bath.


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i have a cold. ; It's day two, which for me us usually the worst day, so it should starting to get better tomorrow... But that's not what I am referring to.

No, I am referring to the ant.  The ant that apparently decided to clamber up the side of my glass while I was not looking and go for a swim.  Ant a la CocaCola.  Again, while looking at ( Read more... )

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I apologize for falling out of the blogosphere for the past three years. You see, parenting two small children is an activity of the "the only way out is through" type, which does not lend itself to the kind of reflection that my blog tends to be about.

Today's 06:00 fun? They boys were gleefully emptying the entire contents of their bookshelf ( Read more... )

Today is a day that has really made me think. I hope that you don’t think that I’m being corny or over-wrought, because I am dead serious about this ( Read more... )

From Harpers some time in the early 2000s:

[Malediction]
HOW’M I DOIN’?

From a letter sent last August by school-board official Rochell Moore to Francis Slay, mayor of St. Louis. Moore, who was elected in April 2001, is unhappy with the board’s decision, on the advice of a private management firm, to close sixteen schools and eliminate 1 ,400 ( Read more... )