It seems like every year this time gets… not really bad… just no good. It is the middle of the boring school semester. Everyone is sick of winter, but spring hasn’t really made an appearance, and there isn’t a “good” holliday untill fireworks season. I tend to get grumpy and stressed, for no real reason […]

Posted by mobile phone:
I’m trying to stay alert in class, so I thought I’d see how it works to write a post from my phone.
So which is worse, dozing in class, or playing with your phone?

So while you are constructing an edifice, it makes sense that we call that building.  But once it’s done, shouldn’t we call it a “built?”

We talked briefly at work about hypocrisy, and I got thinking.  I am a hypocrite.  I don’t want to be, I don’t like being a hypocrite but I am.  I’ve been thinking, trying to figure out maybe why I am.
Some things in my life flip-flop in importance.  Speeding for example.   I’ve never been a speed demon, […]

A local news station recently did a piece on how much power new TVs use. I don’t know if you’ve heard this one or not, but apparently inefficient plasma TVs can consume more power when turned off, then a refrigerator running all day. While I can believe that… I think that it is the exception. […]

So I recently decided, it’s not so much that I want HDDVD to win, but I want Sony to lose.  Sony consistently insists on releasing proprietary technology and it is frustrating.  Rather than contributing to the overall progress of the industries, they dig in their heels and bray long and loud hoping that someone will […]

I once knew a man who was paralyzed form the neck down.  Bedridden, emaciated, and a burden to his wife and family.  Yet he was always positive, amicable and happy.  Once his wife said incredulously that he didn’t want to die.  He yelled at the top of his frail, high-pitched voice “Amo a Vida” (I […]

In a Physical Science class we were talking about Conservation today – the conservation of mass and the conservation of energy, and the issue of global warming came up (energy released burning wood being converted to CO2)
I used to get really interested in the global warming debate.  But I never got really … involved.  The last few […]

“Silly wabbit, kicks are for ribs!”
-Homer while battling the bunny referee of the Springfield Easter egg hunt.