Archive for July, 2009
I’ve started a parallel blog. I’m not sure it’ll stay a blog, but it’s a convenient format while I get started. It’s a single-topic blog, the topic being information literacy. I’m going to be writing on how to find, evaluate, and effectively use information in the current information flood.
AntiGIGO (Anti-”Garbage In, Garbage [...]
So, the job I thought I was getting didn’t happen. Unanticipated budget issues have pushed the hire date to January, “would you still be available?” (Umm, I sure HOPE not.)
It’s been frustrating trying to dig out of this hole, and every so often I get a reminder how bad it could be. Case [...]
Errant Story, by Michael Poe, is another of the comics I read on a regular basis. I’ve been reading him for a long time – found it about the time it started, back in the middle of 2002.
Let’s get the warnings off first. NSFW. Occasional nudity. Sex. Violence. Worst of [...]
About three months ago I stumbled across Goblins. For a handful of episodes it seemed another bit of a lark, making fun of many idiocies of D&D. Then a character died and I discovered it mattered to me. Tricksy authors are… worth reading.
Primarily, the story is of a group of (at first) [...]
One of the things that never (as far as I can see or recall) made it into this blog was my venture into Weight and Diet and Modern Health. Yeah, I capitalized all of that.
Bottom line – I got real disgusted and wound up not trusting much of the medical science. The reason [...]
40 years ago tomorrow (as I write this) I sat, enthralled, in front of my parent’s television, watching a grainy picture of (mostly) Walter Cronkite interspersed mostly with some models – and one electrifying scene. At the age of 9 I was old enough to understand (for the most part) what was going on. [...]
I am probably going to accept a job I don’t particularly want. Actually the job looks interesting, but the pay is about 55% what I made from the previous job. I kind of have to take it – if I refuse, I risk losing unemployment (which is getting close to ending anyway).
The problem [...]
I’m a tiny bit concerned about Swine Flu.
Now, in a lot of ways it’s not that big a deal – don’t let yourselves get caught in the hype. It’s more infectious than ‘normal’ influenza, but the death rate in most places is no worse than normal flu.
Let me break that more simply. The [...]
I live near Chattanooga. I live even closer to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. It’s the closest community to my property, and it’s so close I can literally throw a baseball across the city limit line. (One of these days I expect to be annexed, with all the pluses and minuses you can expect. [...]
Every so often a star fades from the heavens.
I’ve seen bloggers leave – they burn out, or decide there are other things to pursue. Heck, I no longer post in my World of Warcraft blog because frankly the game bores me now – yet I was a moderately popular blogwriter. (I looked at returning. [...]
