Quakers and Six Feet Under

As with the morticians, the writers etc. of Six Feet Under seemed to take pretty good care of Quakers. I just finished the fifth season and found out that one of the characters turns out to be a convinced Quaker, just like me. The show uses it as a great foil for the [...]

Upgrading backwards

It’s like a curse. Microsoft has re-entered my life in an unavoidable upgrade to the Motorola Q phone I just got as part of my re-enlistment into the Verizon network. It’s running Windows Mobile 5.0 and has lots of cool features, but guess whose email program/calendaring software will run on it? I [...]

Stupid stuff

Okay, so here’s the thing–I love Will Ferrell.  I love Ben Stiller.  I love man-child humor of the most extreme kind.  I admit it.  Somehow it strikes that funny bone in my body that is also struck by animal accidents (a la the cat falling into the toilet).  Somehow it’s about life just not being [...]

Private as in property or private as in proprietary?

Ownership is the new black.  That is, in terms of information products.
WordPress is a good example–I have this site, hosted by WP on their servers, thank you very much.   I also have my own rented server which I am currently blogging with Drupal.  So, on one hand, I have the convenience of a combined server [...]

Outdated

Man, I just finished weeding a collection of books at my work and I kept writing “Outdated” over and over and over again. Other terms included “out of date,” “superceded,” and one I kept wanting to write was “WTF?!” I mean Congressional Directory from 1990?  Bill Clinton, anyone?
One book I just couldn’t resist [...]