Quotes from one of our most revered founding fathers. What would he make of our government today? The existence of the Department of Homeland Security? The so-called “Patriot Act”? The whole Intelligent Design debate and rise of the Christian Right? The debate over the 2nd amendment? Thomas Jefferson: Experience hath shown, that even under the Read More …

July 13th and 14th, in Poland Ohio.  A good time was had by all.  It was great to see long lost friends. Hopefully we’ll manage to stay in touch during the next 20 better than we have in the previous 20. Some pictures, and an experiment to see how well this works: well…it doesn’t… at Read More …

The book Freakenomics has some very interesting things to say. One of which I just saw on commercial last night, but entirely misused and misunderstood, either intentionally for marketing purposes or through ignorance. Honestly I think it?s the latter, though its easy to say the former since the author takes great pains to make his Read More …

Finally a part time reader has demanded I update my blog. That’s what I need. A good kick in the ass. To placate Dan I shall post a few readings from the Book Of Dog. Bones and Kiblets (22:18): Those that have fed the Dog and petted the Dog and played with the Dog will be spared Read More …

Okay, so it’s been a while since I updated this. I’ve been bad, very bad. We have started a new project that has generated a great deal of interest from people so this seems like a good place to talk about it. The Babys Room. {ominous crack of thunder} After much deliberation we have begun Read More …

This is a test of PocketBlog. I am blogging this from my iPaq. It is late and I am not tired. I need to get a spell checker to use with this. So far it seems to work pretty well. A faster means of typing is needed as well.

Home Theater construction is still coming along nicely. Some slow days with lots of fiddly tedious things getting done, but we’re quite close to painting now. The front stage is framed up and ready to be wrapped in fabric. A few more coats of mud and lots of sanding and we’re ready to start painting, Read More …

The home theater is starting to move along. The projector, a Sharp XV-Z12000, is anxiously waiting being put to use. The mounting bracket and extension pole ordered from Audio Encounters should be in today or tomorrow (pricy items at almost $500). I’ve settled on a DVD player, the Samsung DVD-HD931, and ordered it from Amazon. Read More …

This week I set up forums on this site. Yesterday was the first day they were really up and running with users besides me. One innocent little post about skittles ended up derailing our normal game night and turning it into a search for Skittles so we could learn thier hidden secrets. The Skittle Project.

Saturday May 10th was another day of the curse. The plan was to wake up early and start working on our basement office floor, prepping the floor and installing Pergo. But the Curse had other plans for us. At 4:30 A.M. I awoke to the tintinnabulation of the myriad UPS’s around the house complaining that Read More …