Today my Dad celebrates his 64th birthday. Happy birthday Dad! Yesterday we went down to visit with him, have a little cake, a little lunch, and offer him a few gifts to commemorate the day...   more »

This morning's bandwidth thief comes to us from a message forum dedicated to Sid Meier's game Civilization. Clearly, this guy found my original article on this subject and decided to hotlink the box art in the message forum. The art was about 70K, and got downloaded 19 times. That's 1.3 Mb of my bandwidth down the tubes for this joker...   more »

Here's a little letter I sent off to the seqfan mailing list about some computations I was toying around with this morning...   more »

A month or so ago I purchased a Badge-A-Minit button maker.  I wrote then that I would talk more about making buttons.  So I guess you can consider this an informal review of the Badge-A-Minit starter kit, advice on button artwork, and a heads up about some new caches I am working on...   more »

As I was remarking this morning... I need a purse. There's just too much junk I have to carry around with me to be properly equipped, and with the advent of hotter weather wearing a heavy coat for the pocket space is just impractical. James read of my plight and made a great suggestion...   more »

CNN reports that GMAC Insurance conducted a nationwide survey of 20 million drivers to assess their knowledge of road safety and proper driving practices. The survey reveals that drivers in the Northwest are the best, and drivers in the Northeast are the worst...   more »

My daughter has had trouble in school this year.  She has a hard time remembering stuff she's taught, and she clearly has an anxiety disorder just like Dad.  When I was a kid, my anxiety debilitated me socially... I couldn't get along with others.  With my daughter, it debilitates her educationally.  Socially she is fine, but if she becomes anxious, her educational performance goes downhill fast.  Earlier in the year I had warned her teacher about this...

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That's it... I'm fed up with bandwidth thieves... I'm fighting back. See if you can guess how by looking at the following screenshot of a certain thief's page...   more »

Contents of my pockets:  1 ball point pen, one binder-clipped stack of index cards, 1 cell phone, 1 wallet, 1 digital camera, one huge wad of keys including two sets of car keys with those little plastic alarm-widgets, and a 256 Mb memory stick.  Did I mention there's a pedometer clipped to my belt?  Yesterday I had a bout of athsma and realized I wasn't carrying my inhaler.   I need a purse...   more »

Thanks to James for his recent Name-That-Movie, and Maggie for hers. I had suggested to Brian last week that I had a great idea for an NTM which I would dedicate to him--unfortunately it turned out I did not have that movie on DVD. But I will procure it before next week! James has already had two NTM's specifically dedicated to him (#9 and #30). Something tells me this NTM should be dedicated to someone...   more »

Well not really, but I'm sick of Xanga users stealing my bandwidth by hotlinking my images.  Bastiges.

By prior rearrangement, Maggie will be doing her NTM this week on Wednesday.  ULev's NTM will appear on Thursday.

Yipee!  Welcome home, honey, we missed you.

Patty's due back today... well tonight actually. Not a moment too soon for me and Neya. Here's a couple pictures Pat took on the flight out...   more »

Lynnea and I were out hiking this weekend and were lucky enough to get a look at this guy...   more »