This afternoon I was in Target stocking up before our trip to Paris (we leave in the morning), and I wandered through the toy section. I was originally looking for some small, inexpensive doodads to use during our employee training sessions next week — it’s often nice to give people who have lots of nervous [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Here is my achievement for the day:
I know, I know… you can give me those mad props now. Yummmmm.
We have enjoyed some really dynamic weather as of late. Warm, summer-like days… single-digit freezes in the evenings… even four inches of the white stuff yesterday. A [...]
Nope, that doesn’t stand for Streaming SIMD Extensions, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, nor the Society for Scientific Exploration. I’m referring to a Significant Snow Event, something we haven’t had here in Colorado yet this fall. Last year we had giant piles of leftover snow everywhere after a very moist October, even, but so [...]
Sorry, I couldn’t help but rehash this bit of news I read today. Chrysler is saying, “sayonara,” to the P.T. Cruiser and its numerous siblings.
“Why do you care about this, Ben?” you might ask. After all, no one in our family drives one of these beasts. Plus, they’re pretty ugly, and their [...]
Last weekend I took a trip to Singapore for 6 hours. Well, the trip itself took more like 52 hours, but that’s counting the roughly 23 hours of travel involved in going each way.
I left Denver at the fantastic morning hour of 8 o’clock Friday and had an uneventful and quick flight to Seattle. The [...]
Today I visited the dentist. This is a bit of an undertaking for me, for, though we have the luxury of a decent dentist right here in Nederland, he only has enough clientèle up in these parts to justify one day of service per week. And, since I am lazy and prefer not to have [...]