Category: Drivel

My life partner and spouse, Beth, wrote a series of short stories a couple years ago.  They were intended to be published together as a book called “Price of Silence.”  However, she decided recently to do something a bit unusual.  She is posting them one by one to a blog under Creative Commons licensing.  The… Continue reading Price of Silence

We’ve pretty much given up on our cat Rufus ever coming home to us.  It’s been over a week now that he’s been gone.  When we got home two Saturday nights ago, he wanted to go out, so we put him out.  He often spends the night outside, and until now he’s always been fine… Continue reading Rufus, RIP

Some basic updates on my life: Our cat Rufus is missing.  He went out last night and never came back. I finished editing the video of last summer’s Green River rafting trip, and screened it last night at a party.  It was a big hit. This morning I finished Mass Effect.  I thought it was… Continue reading miscellaneous stuff

I changed it so people have to answer a simple math question before they can submit a comment to my blog, hoping it would cut out spam bots.  It didn’t.  So now I’m using Spam Karma 2.3.  We’ll see if that does any better.

I’ve been getting way too much comment spam lately.  Even though perhaps only one real person posts a comment to my blog every month, I get several spam bot replies every day.  So I added a Word Press plugin called Math Comment Spam Protection.  Basically, it just means that to submit a comment you  have… Continue reading math is not hard

I just read on Boing Boing that Netscape Navigator will no longer be supported by AOL after February 2008. There was a time that Netscape actually charged money for their software, and thought they could make a viable business on it. I know, because I was one of the rare individuals who actually shelled out… Continue reading Viva la Netscape!

I wouldn’t normally post the contents of an email to my blog without permission of the author, but I’m quite certain Alek Komanitsky would approve. I just got this email from Alek, who is a local geek and Ultimate Frisbee player: For the many that have asked (and those that haven’t yet), the Controllable Christmas… Continue reading Alek’s Amazing Christmas Lights

Google Maps just keeps getting better. In addition to having a feature where you can see what a building looks like from the street, they now have business reviews submitted from readers like me. I’ve written a few reviews of local businesses, and you can see them here. This is in addition to my restaurant… Continue reading Google Maps is cool

New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns – New York Times Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo — a feat that could quell the ethical debate troubling the field. I can’t… Continue reading New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns – New York Times