You come across little quizzes and such all over the web. I came across this one while chatting with co-workers about names for a ferret. After rejecting Rikitikitavi a co-worker from New Delhi (by way of Vancouver) pasted a link to IndiaParenting.com’s Baby Name tool. It has a filter to allow you to pick only  Read more »

Yesterday while I was at work my lazy roses and horribly apathetic cabbage roses finally bloomed. The roses are a kind of hot pink color and I was told by my neighbor that I’m lucky that it bloomed this early since when roses bloom later in the summer in this neighborhood they get attacked by  Read more »

The back of the coffee pouches we use here at the office in the commercial coffee machine has written: “Coffee in the European Tradition.” All I could think when I read it was that they invade underdeveloped countries, force it to become a client state, grab big chunks of fertile land, pay the indigenous people  Read more »

For the last couple years I have been running into people from the old BBS days.  When moved back from Pittsburgh we started seeing her and her delightful little boy A.  Not long after that I ran into S – ‘s soon to be ex-wife on IRC and ended up getting together with her and  Read more »