Last fall I began a series of posts called “The Encyclopedia of Me” with the intent to go through the alphabet and in the process, describe more about myself, my family, my beliefs and interests, etc. Obviously that process stalled in a big way (I only got through B), but that won’t prevent from [...]

The other day I decided to try “jailbreaking” my iPod Touch. As far as I can tell there is nothing illegal about doing this; it just invalidates the warranty from Apple. I didn’t have an original warranty to begin with since I bought it refurbished from eBay, so no worries there.I’ve included a [...]

Mark Lindner kindly pointed out to me today that some people may not know where the poll is that I mentioned in a post a few days ago. This is because if you read this post — like most people — via an RSS aggregator and go to the single post page on FML, [...]

Last night was difficult due to Brinley and Cohen coming into our bed in the wee hours. I gave up trying to sleep around 3 a.m. and went to sit on the couch in the living room. I couldn’t get to sleep for quite a while though because the cut on my forehead [...]

In an effort to try something new (polling) as well as to get some feedback on aspects of this blog, I loaded up the excellent WP-Polls plugin tonight and created an initial poll. The question I’m asking from now (Tuesday, April 22) through next Monday (April 28) is the following:
What motivates you to comment [...]

I was deeply moved by an update from the wife of a friend and fellow librarian, in which she wrote today that:
“I do not know exactly what to say. We are in the Valley.
These are holy moments. The Lord is near.
John is exhausted from fighting the disease and an infection.
John gave me a blessing this [...]

I’m not quite sure why, but when I saw this on Lifehacker today it struck me as really funny. We have bad grime on our bathtubs due to well water so maybe I’ll give this a try today…

Brinley asks Michele, “Did you get it?” as she proudly shows how she can ride her bike, in this recent video.

I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to site statistics for FML and one of the reasons for that is that I am not really a numbers-and-math kind of person. Plus FML is such small potatoes and it is not ad-supported in any way that I don’t feel compelled to knuckle down and [...]

We certainly live in interesting times….
I’ve written a couple of times before about the weirdness of cougar (a.k.a. mountain lion) sightings where I live. Last week a cougar was cornered and killed by Chicago police on the North Side. Yesterday everyone was abuzz about the news that another cougar had been sighted early [...]