Message to Kansas electors

This is something I would normally never do, but nothing about this election has been normal. Just since being elected Mr. Trump has committed acts that should disqualify him from holding office, e.g. appointing known (and seemingly proud) white nationalists, having his children sit-in on calls with heads of state, using his new position to …

Gracie, November 2001 – February 28, 2015

Gracie was my best girl. It seems like only yesterday she was a puppy hopping her way through snow almost as deep than she was tall. It was our first adventure outside.  She followed me all the way to the mailbox and back, hopping all the way. She had a beautiful coat with two little …

Lego BttF

Thoughts on AMC’s “The Walking Dead”

I finally watched the final two episodes of "The Walking Dead". I enjoyed season 1, but the final minutes of episode six seemed overly fatalistic. Sure, Dr. Jennings had plenty of reasons to be fatalistic. Offing your zombie wife and spending months underground without human contact in a futile attempt to save the entire human …

Quick Programming Project

Since I have started using Xpenser to track my time and it exports data in CSV format, I threw together a small program to read the CSV file, calculate my time on various jobs, and output that time along with the amount owed for the individual job and total owed over all jobs. The only …

Just a Niggle

I am usually more of a KDE person, but I have really been enjoying the Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my Dell Mini 9. Everything works great except for suspend when there is a mounted SD card in the card reader. When there is a card mounted, closing the lid or suspending from the menu hangs …

Leprechauns in a Box

The Atheist Experience: Leprechauns?. How true. I just do not understand how people can believe so strongly in something they have no evidence for. And no the Bible or Qur'an or whatever other holy book you subscribe to is not evidence. If a book is all the evidence that is required to believe, you may …

if “evolution” == “religion”: print “Say what?”

High school marching band can’t wear evolutionary T-shirts - Kansas City Star According to Superintendent Pollitt "the district was required by law to remain neutral on religion." I may have missed the news, but since when is evolution a religion or have anything at all to do with religion.   Hopefully they are being taught the …

More CIA Abuses Revealed

Administration Releases More of Long-Classified CIA Report on Interrogations - washingtonpost.com. CIA interrogators seem to relish in prisoner abuse. The agency needs to be reworks from the ground up.

APOD: 2009 August 24 – Morning Glory Clouds Over Australia

APOD: 2009 August 24 - Morning Glory Clouds Over Australia. Fascinating!