Category Archives: nothing special

Asking a judge who has ruled against you and in support of same-sex marriage to recuse himself on the basis of his wife’s activities is not going to fly.  I could have told you that.  As could have a lot … Continue reading →

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?  T.S. Eliot, “The Rock” Tonight, the Rocket Scientist, our friend the Resident Shrink, and I went to a pub in San Jose and played … Continue reading →

The first decade of the millennium is well and truly gone.  Thank God. The past ten years saw the worst attack on American soil not inflicted by ourselves.  A date so horrible that it is not necessary to delineate the … Continue reading →

My resolutions, in no particular order: 1. Pay attention to what other people tell you about yourself. They are bound to be more truthful and accurate than the voices in your head. 2.  Corollary to the above: take care of … Continue reading →

Okay, so it’s after  11:00 1 a.m. and I am posting.  Sue me. One of the things I am trying to wrap my head around is the extent to which what I do here is art, or a preparation for … Continue reading →

Not to bore everyone with my computer travails, but… The iMac now is functioning, which means I can write posts at sometime other than 11:30 pm.  (It also means I can check my email every hour obsessively.  Not necessarily good.)  … Continue reading →

It’s that time of year.  Today is the fifth day of Christmas (did you get your rings? I was so sure I sent them), and in seven more days the Christmas tree will be coming down. Many people have tasteful … Continue reading →

I have all these things I’m thinking about, and once again, no computer.  Jan is back in the shop — this time with a suspect motherboard — and the iMac is likewise down with a blown power supply.  The only … Continue reading →

I am owned by a cat. For years, I resisted having any pets on the grounds that I had kids, and the last thing I wanted was to be responsible for yet another living being. I resisted all pleas to … Continue reading →

One of my favorite songs from the 80s is Mr. Mister’s Kyrie.  The chorus features the phrase “Kyrie eliason,” which is from the Roman Catholic mass and means, in Greek, “Lord have mercy.”  The entire song, which speaks of longing … Continue reading →

Terry Prachett quote most likely to appear soon on an episode of Criminal Minds: There are all kids of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape.  Sometimes they … Continue reading →

It was a good Christmas.  No travel, little stress.  (This is going to be a boring post.)  Going in with little to no expectations proved to be a winning strategy.  One advantage of the kids being older is that at … Continue reading →

Well, rats.  The days are going to get longer from here on out.

It was wondrous. The moon, usually a silver-white disc, was… three-dimensional.  Instead of a coin, it was a golden marble to be picked out of the sky.  The face spread and dissolved into the jagged irregular maria. Men walked up … Continue reading →

Last week, I had a class in the 2007 version of PowerPoint for Windows.  Heh heh heh. It was a lot easier than either Word or Excel.  By the time I got to PowerPoint, I had a pretty good idea … Continue reading →