It's upon us again, a time filled with campaign ads designed to frighten and cajole us so as to not vote for the other guy. I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as positive campaigning anymore. When all the advertising is designed to get people to stay home on election day, I guess I can't be surprised when we have low turnout ( Read more... )

Charlotte is 2 years and 364 days old. On something of a pre-birthday whim we took her and her older sister, not quite five to the movies today. The first time either of them had ever been to the theatre. We saw Monsters University. They were very well behaved, though Charlotte in particular had difficulty staying on one seat all that time. ( Read more... )

Wife: Theresa, why is Charlotte screaming and going downstairs?
Theresa: Well, she's just going to get Lumpy. (A stuffed animal ( Read more... )

Through two days worth of oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court, I did not hear a single justice ask the question I would have asked, if I were (un)fortunate enough to be on the bench. So I will ask it myself now. ( Read more... )

I don't post much about work these days (ignore that I don't post much about anything) work is just not a subject I feel like talking about.  It's difficult to explain to people and even when I do, there's still lots of misconceptions.  It comes with the territory, but it means that the lowest common denominator is silence.  In this town that's ( Read more... )

Is the week over yet?

I preface this by saying that I'm not an Apple fan. I think they make inferior desktops. The Macintosh operating system is a travesty. Their draconian requirements for integration are the product of a simple-minded obsession of simplicity at all costs. The result shows through.

They have a niche with artistic programs, and as I'm not an artist, I ( Read more... )

So, my old LJ theme is broken. And rather than stare at the ugliness, I've 'upgraded' to the lastest version of their software online here and applied a new theme. This may change abruptly over the next few days as I do some back-end housekeeping. But, since I think most people view from their own friend's page, there will be substantially no ( Read more... )

So, I don't post much here, but I do keep track of it all. Recently my journal here has been hit with a series of spam posts on my Time's 100 post. Laziness means I won't even check to see if that's my last post ( Read more... )

Time magazine is out with their 2010 "100 most influential people" poll. I perused the results and was shocked at the results. Polling was limited to their pre-selected candidates, but even still, the 200 or so were broad enough. The real shock was at the winners. Who topped this list ( Read more... )