I just got a phone call from a robot which ranted about how many women didn’t vote in the last election. It exhorted me to…
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I just got a phone call from a robot which ranted about how many women didn’t vote in the last election. It exhorted me to…
It’s official. We’re in record-breaking mode. Thursday night’s low set a record. Friday night’s low probably did the same. Hell, today’s high may set a…
What I wrote last night about Bonnie was ignorant. I’m not sure the cool weather we’re experiencing has anything to do with the tropical storm…
It’s freaky cold in New Orleans. Cold? The way the temperature has been dropping I bet we hit the upper 60s tonight. I suppose it…
Friday night I couldn’t get to sleep. Same again Saturday. I seemed to be experiencing some vague and nameless dread, some free-floating anxiety. (I’ve never…
Mike finished his 30th round of Scrabble yesterday. His final standing for the tournament: He’s ranked #118 in Division 1, having won fourteen games and…
Miike won five games and lost three today at the Scrabble Championship. One of his opponents scored a triple triple with the word defiling. A…
Mike, my father-in-law, didn’t do quite as well today at the National Scrabble Championship. He won two games and lost five. Joey Mallick, whom I…
It started raining this morning shortly after seven o’clock, accompanied by one of the loudest thunderclaps I have ever heard. I dropped Mike off at…
My in-laws are in town, and Pops is playing in the National Scrabble Championship, which started today. I just checked the Web and saw his…
I guess I will listen to Kerry’s speech tonight. I haven’t really checked him out. There are a number of things he could say to…
At last, someone has acknowledged the iMovie “Save Frame As…” bug. I was beginning to think I was crazy, because this damn thing has been…
As I was riding to work this morning, about to pass a big Ryder truck that was parked in the street, a motorist came up…
Back in June, John Gruber tried something daring. He asked his readers for money to support his blog, Daring Fireball. It’s a great blog, probably…
Today I evicted a tenant. She had been living in the shed behind our house for I don’t know how long; she took up residence…
I’ve been letting the Mac OS X Mail client decide what’s junk for the last seventeen months. As of this morning, it has identified 100,031…
Sweat is a good thing. I love to sweat. Lucky for me, because I’m doing a lot of it. It’s summer in New Orleans, and…
I was unable to replace the faulty hose connecting the toilet tank to the water supply. Seems my shutoff valve has a flange coupling, odd…
Over the last few days, I’ve noticed a haze hanging in the air, especially on my morning ride to work. It’s remarkably thick. Yesterday morning,…
XY and I have wondered for a while about these plants growing in our courtyard. A neighbor lady brought another one over in a small…