Just heard that one of my very favorite musicians, Dan Fogelberg, just passed away. Very shocking, he was still young. Prostrate cancer took him. He was only 56. He was a midwestern boy who was popular at least in St.Louis. I saw him in the early 90s in concert at the Fox Theater. Since he had a special thing with St.Louis he decided to video the whole
Last week I helped Gregg move back from Washington. He finally threw in the towel with the idiot up there who was trying to swindle somebody into buying his junk yard "ethanol plant". I use the words ethanol plant very loosely. So I flew up on Friday and we packed everything in the Uhaul and had his apartment cleaned out in about 2 hours. Gregg said
Ok here's some funny stories I've heard lately... A guy I work with usually has some funny stories about his girlfriend who is a caregiver. Recently she was leaving a senior center that cares for those with Alzheimer's disease. They all loved her there and decided to throw a going away party for her. Most of the seniors there were confused as to whose
Who was the moron at Microsoft who decided to enable the sticky keys feature on Windows anyway? Anybody in their right mind puts specialty features of an operating system in a corner that needs several keystrokes and mouse clicks in order to enable it. The stupid thing is that there's a place to turn off sticky keys yet it stills comes back if you press
Ok here's some stories I've heard lately -- My friend Gregg (who seems to have a deep well of stories) has a collection of robot figurines. He's been collecting them for quite awhile and displays them on bookshelf. Some you would recognize right away such as the robot from Terminator and others not so much. The one robot he's been wanting for a long
Today's my birthday! I'm 42 (yeah, answer to life the universe and everything). I just dropped Annette and Kenzie off at the airport. They go to Florida every year with Annette's dad and relatives. 10 days of the beach is just too boring for me. So I'm home alone. I feel kind of guilty but I'm really enjoying it..haha. Ah absence makes the heart grow
It seems lately there's been a rash of injustice going on in this country. The latest one is particularly scary because it involves the government's abuse of anti-terrorism laws and sentiment. It involves an autistic young man who is a brilliant physicist studying cutting edge string theory. As a functioning autistic his social skills are almost nil
I saw this posting on Slashdot today, thought it was very insightful concerning the new NASA push to return to the moon and the idea of using inflatable tents to house the astronauts -- <snip> NASA is going to try to make going to the moon as risk free as possible. This habitat is an example of risk aversion. Caves, though riskier, offer several
I know I've been on about movies a lot in this blog. But it's my latest past time, so deal. I downloaded the movie called Night At the Museum starring Ben Stiller. First off I know it's kind of kid film and I know they are predictable by nature. But as one of my favorite podcasters, Mark Kermode said, if you go see this movie with adults or by yourself
Just a short post today. Besides Annette, I've discovered the most beautiful woman in the world. I'm not usually blown away by physical beauty but this woman is absolutely incredible. She gives the news in France, her name is Melissa Theuriau. There's a web site with videos of her giving the news. It doesn't matter what hair style she has, what outfit