No, you geeks, I don’t mean wiki confluence, though that works pretty well and I use it at work. And I don’t mean the photo project, though I love the idea. I’m just talking about my own little life. I love it when a book or magazine article I’m reading refers to another book or […]
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Wine and Pretension
I recently had a chat about someone who claimed that drinking wine from one particular wine glass made the wine taste better than from another. Of course, the glass that makes it taste so delicious is extremely expensive. We chatters pretty much all agreed that the guy was pretentious or deluded. He may BELIEVE that […]
FCC You!
I’ve posted earlier about whether words like “fuck” should be allowed on TV. I won’t repost that one, but I will note that the Second Circuit seems to be reading weeklyrob, because they ruled as I would against the FCC. Meanwhile, The Week magazine has just violated my two strike rule, and I’ll be canceling […]
Killers
My last post was about how we rearrange atoms to make what we want. But that reminded me about a frequent thought I have about how we’re all killers. Here’s how I look at it: The sun is a burning mass radiating energy. That energy comes to the rock known as earth. Some arrangements of […]
Steve! I Don't Think You're Spam!
I get a ton of spam comments to this blog. I don’t know why. I don’t get very many real comments, but somehow the spammers hit me with about 80 a week. So I have moderation set. If you’ve commented before, then you can comment again without having to wait for moderation. But if you […]
Importation, Part 2
Ok, so now all the posts from oldweeklyrob (before March, 2007) have been brough over here. No comments came over, which is very sad. To see the comments for any post before March, 2007, you’ll still have to visit the old site. And I only brought over a few pictures, because that was more of […]
Importation
Since I moved my blog from iWeb, I’ve been bothered that one year’s worth of posts are over there, and the rest are over here. So, slowly but surely, I’m going to start moving stuff over here. For those of you who rss (this may include whyohwhy people), this could get ugly for a while. […]
Spiders and Humans
I washed a spider down my shower drain last night. I generally let them live, as long as they’re not in my bed, or crawling around somewhere in my way, or clearly venomous. (I killed a black widow a few months ago with no remorse at all.) As I washed it down, I thought about […]
The Train! The Train!
I take the train to work every day, and I very much appreciate the time to read and get into my own head. But it’s not always great. Yesterday, my little monthly card didn’t seem to work as I rushed to get to the train that I saw arriving. A very helpful little attendant ran […]
I Exist!
So, I’ve been preoccupied with baby and work (and the occasional nap). And since I really don’t want this blog to be about work or my private life, I haven’t had a lot to say. The shootings in VA happened while I was in a vacuum. I didn’t hear about them at all until a […]