I mentioned before that Denis Dutton, aldaily.com guy (along with other things), responded almost immediately to my email about a typo on his site. It got fixed on the same day. Then, on Christmas day, I wrote aldaily about another typo, and Denis wrote back that day again. Twice! Once to say thanks, and once […]
Big Think
I’m excited. Thanks to aldaily for the link.
Hyperrealistic Daydreaming
I walk about a mile and a half every day in order to get to and from the train station. That time is spent daydreaming. What it would be like to go back in time, and be the only guy with an Army tank in the Punic Wars? Would it make me a ruler? Would I at […]
Two Roads
While walking along a path with a non-American friend of mine, I asked whether he’d heard the Robert Frost poem, “The Road Not Taken”. Of course, any American friend of mine would have already heard of it, but this guy hadn’t. So once I got home, I looked it up and sent it to him. […]
The Gangsta Code
The L.A. Times runs a Homicide Report blog that allows comments and asks for information. One incident was a 37 year old man, gunned down in the middle of the night. The comments show family members and friends mourn the loss. But then other people started to comment, in record numbers, and we learn more […]
Cussin'
I really liked the movie “Knocked Up.” I thought it was very funny. One thing that distracted me, though, was the language. It was in English, of course, but man, did they all cuss a lot. Even the characters who you wouldn’t expect to cuss all the time, cussed all the time. People cussed to […]
My Bro
My brother is a photo bug. Do people still say that? Anyway, one of his photos just took first place in a monthly contest. Check it out.
Sweden
Sweden is pretty cold. The thermometers all have a big fat ZERO (celsius) right in the middle, indicating (I believe) that the mercury is just as likely to be below it as above it. I was there a week, this time, and never saw it go above that zero. I did see the sun, one […]
All Points North
As my wife and child head below the equator and further to the sunburnt country, I’ll be flying north north north to Stockholm. So weeklyrob will suffer. Expect the next post some time after December 20th, 2007. [‘Course, if I feel the urge, and have the access, I may drop in a post here or there.]
Computers are Dumb
I get hundreds of comment spams a day for this blog. If it’s not obvious what that means, it means that spammers leave spam comments on my posts. Since the email address they enter isn’t on my “Allowed” list, their comments go to a queue where I decide whether to approve them or not. Obviously, […]