I’m nearing the end of my project of excavating old images from the depths of my hard drive. There have been some interesting discoveries along…
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I’m nearing the end of my project of excavating old images from the depths of my hard drive. There have been some interesting discoveries along…
Bad news everywhere. The sunken barge shifted in the Mississippi last night, spilling yet more oil into the river. Stacy Head (my Council rep) is attacking Jerome Smith for no good reason. Derrick “Saggy Pants” Shepherd is going down in flames.
But I don’t care, because I got a new monitor at work.
Actually, I got the monitor a couple weeks ago, only to discover to my chagrin that I couldn’t get full resolution without a graphics card upgrade. So it’s been sitting to the side, unplugged, until today.
The card has arrived, and I am rocking four megapixels.
I left my daughter with a bunch of strangers this morning. Kind of an odd experience, but not as upsetting as I might have thought.…
Here’s an excerpt from the 1st District Crime Activity Report for July 24, 2008, reproduced verbatim and without editorial comment: Type: Aggravated Assault Location: 3100…
I spent a few hours over the past week helping a friend pack up and move. Something I’ve done many times before. Only, in this…
And now here comes a video from the unfathomable T Bill featuring Xy and yours truly at the Kroger grocery in Bloomington, Indiana, circa mid…
Rainwater collects in little puddles on several of the steps leading up to our front porch. Ideally these old worn treads should be replaced, but…
Dipping into ye olde hard drive, I found this photo collage I made six years ago. I still think this is pretty cool. I didn’t…
The Louisiana Department of Transportation held a public meeting at City Park Tuesday night to gather input for a statewide bicycle/pedestrian master plan. I missed…
Just wrapped up a four-night visit with the in-laws. (Actually they left town yesterday morning.) What to say? They read this blog, so of course…
Here’s an excerpt from the 1st District Crime Activity Report for July 20, 2008, reproduced verbatim and without editorial comment: Type: Theft Location: Dumaine and…
You don’t cry much, but you’ve been grunting and making a lot of other noises, pretty much since the day you were born. Over the…
You’d think a guy like me would be all over Tales of the Cocktail. (Hell, I should be on a panel. After all, I’ve co-hosted…
Here is some random audio mess I mixed up lately. Voskhod [26:15] Proton [25:53] Cosmos [26:35] Soyuz [27:58] All files are in MP3 format; each…
Three years ago, I became aware of a collaborative poster project which made use of a couple of photographs I’d published under a Creative Commons…
It would have been nice if this big old house could have been preserved. It would have been nice if someone had taken responsibility for…
Four years ago I was at the national convention of the Green Party. This time around, I was barely aware of it before it was…
I was playing with the girl yesterday, and I asked her some silly question I don’t even remember now. Then I answered my own question,…
WWL-TV will do a feature on the Lafitte Corridor this Thursday morning at 7:45 AM. This is part of a series called “In the Zone.”…
Title: The Speed of Dark Author: Elizabeth Moon Published: 2002 So here’s a book that I enjoyed despite some glaring deficiencies. It’s the tale of…