This great picture of a sunrise at Cuba Lake, NY was taken by Richard Siegel. He is my friend Brock’s older brother and one of the people I admired and tried to emulate when I was young. He is o...Read More
Greenwashing is a new word meaning to cover something with a patina of environmentalism. Example: “Driving an SUV then buying carbon credits is greenwashing.” Thanks to the Saturday WSJ fo...Read More
Below is an email I got from Charter Communications in response to a email I sent them about the fact that they cut off my service. It is clear that they didn’t read my email and have no intenti...Read More
I’m working on the Basic Theory of Faucets and Happiness. So far it states “How happy you are is inversely proportional to the number of water valves in your direct control.” a five ...Read More
Before our trip to Santa Fe we heard an advertisement by the USPS (formerly the Post Office) about how you could go online and forward your mail. No muss no fuss. So we tried it and we have some good ...Read More
I was sent this link to some NASA space shots by Edie T. Very cool stuff definitely a good investment of our tax money. http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm Here is the link to NASA’...Read More
I’m busy worrying about the Beyond Borders Screening so I don’t have much mental energy to write the good stuff for SWCamborne or Radical Immigration but I did take a good picture of the b...Read More
What’s the difference between theory and practice? In theory they’re the same. In practice they’re not. Thanks again to Joel G who scans the blogosphere for me on a regular basis: Ha...Read More
There are times when even I the eternal optimist find it hard to believe my tag line above. Life is not always good. Yesterday we buried Gary David. He died on Monday from pancreatic cancer afte...Read More