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False equivalencies disguising sexism
Dear New York Times ( Read more... ) -
I present to the world: Gregory Delaney Blando
Gregory was born at 1:57 am PDT on Saturday 28 March at Cedars Sinai. He weighed 3345g (7 lbs 6 oz) and was just shy of 22 inches long. Mother and baby are doing well.
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new level of creepy, or, my land line has a second job
The land line rang. The caller ID had the land line's number.
It was a robo-call, advertising some credit card.
It's coming from inside the phone! -
phone operator icon trumps command line icon
A couple months ago, I dropped my old HTC Slide 4G about twenty feet. I loved that phone because it had a slide-out keyboard but was still a relatively modern (dual-core) 4G phone. It was old enough that I already qualified for a non-penalty replacement. I picked the Nexus 5, which is slightly too wide for most watch pockets (where I've been ( Read more... ) -
Home organizing never ends, it just resumes... during the Missing Hour
I've learned to come up with simple goals when it comes to organizing. This afternoon's is simple enough: I want to free up a box-width section (roughly one-third of a shelf length) on my big baker's rack in the office. I'm only a quarter of the way through the process, but I only expect to spend about two hours total on this ( Read more... ) -
It's good to have a working government again, too.
Today is the first anniversary of my wedding to ceruleanbluegal. We had intense steak action, though at Ruth's Chris instead of our beloved Buggy Whip. We wanted to try something new ( Read more... ) -
Starsky is totally gonna hop in...
I was going to wait until I had a pic of a kitty crawling under it. However I just wanted to report on the useful thing I made since my last post: a book hutch for my main desk ( Read more... ) -
You know you have an esoteric interest when...
My father used to have a few slide rules from his youth. His favorite and mine was his Keuffel & Esser 4081. It was in beautiful condition and I loved learning about mathematical relationships from it, even though I had a graphing calculator and solar-powered scientific calculators were down to $20 by the time I was a junior in high school ( Read more... ) -
McVities vs Nature Valley
My wife has been helping me realize granola bars are the digestive cookies of America. They look like a healthful food, but in reality they're oatmeal hardtack.
They also dunk well in coffee.
Happy August.