I am planning a blog redesign. Longtime readers know that in the past I’ve changed my blog design the way others change their socks. The reasons for changing the layout in the past are many — WordPress makes it easy, a blog redesign makes me feel productive without being productive, sheer boredom. In this case,Continue reading “On Thinking About a Blog Redesign”
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On Draw Muhammad Day
Today is “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day.” The day was declared in the aftermath of Comedy Central’s censoring of a recent South Park. Muhammad, who had appeared in 2001 in the episode “Super Best Friends” was depicted wearing a bear suit; Sunni Muslims find depictions of the Prophet offensive, and editorial cartoons in Denmark resulted inContinue reading “On Draw Muhammad Day”
On Video Viewing For Your Wednesday
Get your Wednesday started with some public service announcements or campaign commercials! 🙂 Because it needs to be said: Don’t drunk-dial FreedomWorks: That was the voice of GEICO. No, not the gecko. The other voice of GEICO. Next up… This commercial for Dale Peterson, candidate for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner, is beyond awesome! “We’re Republicans! WeContinue reading “On Video Viewing For Your Wednesday”
On Historical Musings and the Grand Union Flag
I receive interesting mail on occasion. Recently, I got a letter from George W. Bush’s Presidential Library. That went in the garbage. That was followed by a letter from John Boehner; he thinks taxes are too high, when the federal tax burden now is lower than at any time in the last fifty years, goingContinue reading “On Historical Musings and the Grand Union Flag”
There is one thing I never do, never ever do, when I complete a Sudoku puzzle. I never guess. Sherlock Holmes famously said in The Sign of Four that a guess is “destructive to the logical faculty,” and I am not inclined to disagree. When it comes to Sudoku I puzzle it out, I thinkContinue reading
On Writing a Weekend To-Do List
The weekend is at hand. This morning, on the train, rather than muse on the gloominess of the world, I wrote out a “To Do” list for the weekend. I write out “To Do” lists for the office most mornings; my cubicle neighbor can’t see the point, but I like thinking through what I’m doing,Continue reading “On Writing a Weekend To-Do List”
On the Wisdom of Douglas Adams
Nine years ago today, Douglas Adams — script editor for Doctor Who, writer of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency — passed away. In commemoration of that: Don’t forget your towel today.
On Creativity, Comic Books, and TR
I have been feeling creative of late. More creative than I’ve felt recently. A number of projects that were running in background processes and had begun to come up “Not Responding” on the mental Task Manager have started running again. And I’ve realized I’ve not put together the “Yankees Suck” sign yet; I need toContinue reading “On Creativity, Comic Books, and TR”
On Let It Be, Forty Years On
Forty years ago today, The Beatles’ Let It Be arrived, and an era came to an end. The band had already disintegrated in the summer of ’69. Paul McCartney announced that he had left the band in April, before the release of his solo album McCartney. It wasn’t just a Beatles album, it was theContinue reading “On Let It Be, Forty Years On”
On Friday Bric-a-Brac
This morning, while crossing the street from the subway station to the light rail station, I found myself playing an inadvertant game of chicken with a low-flying pigeon. Fortunately, the pigeon blinked first. There’s nothing weirder than looking an oncoming pigeon in the eye as it’s coming right for you. And because it needs toContinue reading “On Friday Bric-a-Brac”