BBC’s The World – Sans Yelling!

I – get ready – managed to listen to The World on NPR this evening without yelling. Amazing, I know. Firstly, they ran a series of stories on the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of Sudan and they…

Eine Reise zum Zahnarzt

I went to the dentist this morning to get my final round of root canal-related tooth fun and heard the words that you never want to hear from your plummer, mechanic or dentist: “You don’t have some place you need…

Site News

Updated the site to WordPress 1.2 – it’s very nice, backend-wise. You probably won’t see any impact on the viewing side of things (except for a slight speedup) until I get more plugins/geegaws/wizzbangs installed. *grin*

Furious

I’m pissed. There’s no other words to describe how I feel. As I was watching CNN Headline News at lunch today, those ghouls decided it would be a good idea to run footage of the U.S. soldiers killed in Ramahdi…

Prosenfeldisms

There’s a gent at work by the name of P. Rosenfeld (name foreshortened to protect the innocent) who tends to have an odd outlook on life but whose company I wouldn’t trade for much of anything. He’s one of the…

Miscellaneous /etc

It’s been a full week since I last posted and I think it’s high time I finally update the site. Things have been busy. My cousin’s wedding went well – the ceremony was beautiful and they had weather to match.…

Real Life Update

So here’s what’s going on: We’ve been busy, very busy. My cousin is getting married this Saturday, so we’re headed out to Titusville, PA tomorrow (no posting ’til Sunday, that means). I’ve been having bouts of insomnia (“What better time…

Hey You Kids, Get Off My Lawn!

My wife and I came home the other day to find a bit of a surprise in our mailbox: (Click the thumbnail to see a larger version or click here to see a monstrous version.) Now, I know I’ve been…