As our kids start to move out of babyhood, I feel the need to tell someone about the best baby gear we came across while helping them survive to toddlerhood. I also have a pair of friends about to have a baby (Hi Denny, Hi Aprille!), who probably already have all their gear lined up, […]
I know, you’re not all torn up about this. As a further refinement of my blogging efforts, I’ve decided to stop hosting ads on this site. Especially Google’s context-sensitive AdSense ads. Turns out that a blog as eclectic as this one is a bad fit for contextual advertising. I’m open to ads in the future, […]
We had an ice storm earlier this week. I, along with every other individual in the Midwest, took pictures of the cool ice capades. I am limiting myself to just one photo, taken a day later, when the sun was shining and everything was melting. The photo looks better in the biggest size.
You may or may not have read the Master Home Computing Plan, a post where I outlined how and what my perfect home computing plan was. That post is under review right now, but a crucial element has just been introduced by a company called iospirit. Enter Remote Buddy. Originally, this was software you installed […]
The phrase, “nearly always fatal,” or words to that effect, appears in every description of rabies I have managed to find in the last twelve hours. Here is why I’m looking up rabies. Late last night I was working in the basement, on the computer, as I usually do, and I heard behind me a […]
So, I was doing some research yesterday about an especially scary infectious disease, touring the Internet, checking the CDC sites, and I came across this photo on the page about wound treatment. Now, I know from how put-together and happy she looks that she’s just a stock photo model, probably some waitress in L.A., but […]
