Posted in News and Politics on August 31, 2007 | No Comments »
An article in today’s New York Times exposes another aspect of the widespread crime of fashion known as “sagging.” In the case of the subject in this photo
we can’t blame the low-flying pants on the lack of a belt. Maybe it’s an attempt to limit collateral damage in the event of being ”pantsed.”
Posted in Life on August 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Over at BrianKaneOnline, my friend Brian has posted some thoughts about his daughter’s first day of school. This time of year has been filled with a sense of possibility for me since I began my career as a schoolchild (I’ve since moved on, thank you) at the same time Brian did. The September sky, crisp [...]
Posted in Computers and Internet, Site on August 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Only four days it took before my site got spammed. I feel so special.
On a more serious note, hacking and identity theft have hit uncomfortably close to home. We’ve had a rash of people having mail stolen out of their mailboxes. Credit card transfer checks have been used fraudulently, causing innumerable headaches with businesses, credit [...]
Posted in Music on August 25, 2007 | No Comments »
For years I have been a fan of space music. Space music, you say? Yes, space music.
It creates a sense of openness, a sense of the vastness of space in its slow - or absent - sense of rhythm, its ethereal tones and airy quality. During this same time, I have been a rather-more-than-occasional fan [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music on August 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »
This last week my wife and I went to see James Taylor in concert, a show that was part of his “One Man Band” tour. The concert tickets were part of my birthday gift to her earlier this summer. It seemed that August 20th would never get here - but it did, I’m happy to [...]
Posted in Life on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[Another update of a post at "Confessions of a Reluctant Blogger," this time from March 2006. I'll stop recycling soon, I promise.]:
Three years ago my father died unexpectedly.
Unexpectedly. Yeah, if ever there was a word that didn’t say it all. My grandmother had been sick since the holidays. I had been preparing myself for the [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Hobbies, Music on August 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
[An update of the original post on "Confessions of a Reluctant Blogger"]:
Since stumbling across the “Overture” (YouTube video) to Rush’s 30th anniversary tour concert in Frankfurt on YouTube late last year I began devising subtle schemes to get my mitts on a copy of the R30 deluxe edition DVD/CD set. Thanks to Santa Claus Amazon.com, I was [...]
Posted in Site on August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
rum·mage (rŭm’ĭj)
v. rum·maged, rum·mag·ing, rum·mag·es
v. tr.
To search thoroughly by handling, turning over, or disarranging the contents of.
To discover by searching thoroughly.
v. intr.
To make an energetic, usually hasty search.
n.
A thorough search among a number of things.
A confusion of miscellaneous articles.
[From earlier romage, act of packing cargo, from French arrumage, from Old French, from arumer, to [...]
Posted in News and Politics on August 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The space shuttle Endeavour is safely back on earth. Phew.
While the astronauts and officials at NASA expressed little concern, with their usual understated engineering and scientific pronouncements, news of the “gouge” was enough to have me thinking of the two shuttle disasters that have already taken place, Challenger in 1987 and Columbia in 2003. Space [...]
Posted in Site on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
A few words to live by on my blog:
Kindness. I will strive to post as my best self, and to refrain from posting intemperately. I will try to remember that the people I am responding to are human beings who also have their good and bad days. If I post something that I feel is [...]
