Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
Posted in Charitable Organizations, Fun, Observations on Oct 30th, 2007
Last Saturday evening I attended an Up With People performance in Winston-Salem. While it was a first for me, the show reminded me of the old style variety format, which was quite familiar to those in my generation. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour comes to mind; however, The Ed Sullivan Show was, perhaps, [...]
Posted in Observations, Odds & Ends, Philosophy, religion on Oct 26th, 2007
Nobel laureate James Watson’s racially biased remarks, which he made during an interview he gave to the Sunday Times in London Oct 14th, while shocking, inflammatory, and scientifically unsubstantiated are disappointing but not altogether surprising. Prejudice, it seems, is not daunted by intelligence or factual data. The famed biologist’s comments underscore an [...]
Posted in Observations, Odds & Ends on Oct 25th, 2007
Long as I remember the rain been comin down.
Clouds of mystry pourin confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, tryin to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain.Who’ll Stop The Rain
Creedence Clearwater Revival
No one, I hope, at least not for a while. We’re enjoying the first significant rainfall [...]
Posted in Observations, Technology on Oct 24th, 2007
This morning I reneged on my promise to let sleeping dogs lie. Sometime between The Diane Rehm Show and Fresh Air I was transformed into what an old high school friend, Bruce Smith, in his own inimitable style dubbed an incomprehensible binomial quadratic nerd. Bruce coined that epithet way back in 1960 when we were [...]
Posted in Observations, Technology on Oct 23rd, 2007
For several days now, I’ve been trying to decipher Apache’s arcane configuration files. Why tackle merging .htaccess files into httpd.conf in the first place since everything was working with my server setup? Perhaps it was the blush of success I had experienced upgrading to MySql 5.0 that provided the impetus for me to [...]
Scribbling
Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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The Zero
A Novel
Jess Walter
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