So, around these parts, the local talk radio source is KBKW and, on certain mornings I happen to catch Coffee Talk with Doug McDowell. I have grown to respect this show because Mr. McDowell is typically not a personality that makes uninformed claims and the guests are respected even if some fundamental disagreements could be [...]

I was on a roll today: Got up at 6:00 am Stretched (It’s a big deal! Really!) Checked the forecast and rode a bike to the office space Worked and researched all morning on WordPress themes and plugins To top it off, I walked to Safeway to pick up some better things to eat for [...]

iPad via Engadget. Click image for their hands-on. Yeah. It’s not much but it’s the future. I have to give Apple credit for looking so far into the future of computing. The way I see this is that laptops and desktops will become the niche devices with a portable touchtop being the way that people [...]

Okay… I have to put this somewhere. In an obvious effort to find a picture depicting nuclear cooling towers and people/nature coexisiting, someone decided to pull a picture from the Tacoma News Tribune and edit the picture’s caption. Here is how the caption read in Shannon Dininny’s AP article from 2005: “Washington Public Power Supply [...]

Ahh, December. Before college, before jobs, before loans and bills… before all that other stuff that got in the way of what the current date meant to you, December was a count-up to 25 with some lame other days attached to the end before New Years. This meant that EVERY day had to carry a [...]

Wow. -13C? 8F? This is madness! And furthermore, a power outage that happens during the night of the coldest of the cold snap when the apartment uses electricity for the miniscule amount of heating we need makes for a rather uncomfortable morning. I have also decided that my cable modem and router will be on [...]

So far so good. The theme is up and running and just has a few links to fix and fill up with content. Going to test some media uploads tomorrow to see how those work. Lordy, I want a smartphone though. My ambitions for this site are running wild and the idea of mobile updates [...]

Today, it’s Thrice… Don’t know why but I think that, for the day, I’m going to go back to some of that insane hardcore and screamo from four or five years ago. It just keeps coming with the intensity and it kind of keeps my creative mood at an appropriate level. Now to hide in [...]