A blog about nothing
Since it took so long for us to become parents the first time, we had to realize it may never happen for us. Then shortly after our first son was born we found out that Rachel was pregnant with our second son. This lead us down the path of determining what the size of our [...]
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February 25th 2010
At Christmas time we considered buying a new Blue Ray player. Last week we decided to get a Tivo. In recent years these devices have come down in price to what I consider reasonable. Things like these have all kinds of hidden cost, but here is one you might not think about. Most modern equipment [...]
About 10 years ago all our friends were getting married. Five years ago they were all having kids. Now, many them are getting divorced. Rachel and I have noticed with this trend that it is the women in the relationship who are unhappy and looking to get out. We’ve mused on the cause of this [...]
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January 20th 2010
Halloween is not just for treats, it’s about tricks too. Most everybody I know loves a good Halloween prank, there are even sites dedicated to them. Today in my hometown was an example of Halloween pranks gone too far. The Indianola high school is closed today because vandals damaged the radiators on 14 buses last [...]
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October 30th 2009
I work full time for AOL, LLC and telecommute to work. Because of this I need to have broadband in my home. We currently live in the smallish town of Indianola, Iowa and we use Mediacom for our broadband access. The current high speed package we have is $50 a month (7MB download, 512KB upload, [...]
I’m a lefty. Several members of both Rachel and my families are lefties. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of our kids turned out to be left handed. I’m not afraid to swing a hammer or turn a screwdriver, but I’ve always felt slightly awkward doing it. Especially compared to my right handed relatives. Now, [...]
Filed under Editorial Posted on August 3rd 2009
Dan Simmons is the author of my favorite book series “The Hyperion Cantos”. I’m just finishing up my second read of another of Dan Simmons’ books “illium”. The story takes place after the post humans have evolved separately from the old style humans. Autonomous robots, morovecs, have been living around Jupiter and the post’s have [...]
Filed under Editorial Posted on July 20th 2009
I always think it is kind of fun to play around with the electoral college maps. I put together my state by state prediction on the one provided by AOL.
Filed under Editorial Posted on November 4th 2008
The developers of Firefox, a web browser created by the Mozilla Foundation, have decided to once again rescue the masses from the horrors of the Internet. Having produced top-notch phishing protection, malware identification and other security features unmatched by their competitors they are now introducing the “Rickroll Detection Filter.”read more | digg story
Jonathan Coulton’s “Code Monkey” is a niche song about software engineers. It describes the feeling you get from time to time as a developer. I have to admit that I use to get these feelings quite a bit, but since I’ve changed jobs I don’t feel this way nearly as often. Sometimes you still just [...]
