to the sad red earth. Next week, the blog will be undergoing a significant upgrade, rendering the site more muted in its redness and vast in its earthiness, and producing no effect whatsoever on its sadness. It will also have more bells and whistles, because blogger, musical in his tastes if not in his talents, […]
In Defense of the PC
Turns out it wasn’t the PC or some software conflict, or even the modem as we thought after five hours of work yesterday, but defective cable and connections. Mac schmac. I’m computing, baby!
No Post Today: Oh, for Pencil and Paper
One week now without my main computer and most of my files and programs. Four hours now with the tech working away, trying unsuccesfully to overcome the loss of connectivity created by the conflicts between the Teredo Tunneling System Interface and Zone Alarm Security System and the IPv4 and IPv6 packets. (Don’t I sound like […]
Blogcation
I’m taking one. A blogcation, that is. Actually, truth be told, it won’t be any kind of cation. The fall semester approaches, and I will be devoting my hours next week to course preparation and related projects. It is just that I will not be blogging. No posts. No Facebook updates. Not tweets. No twits. […]
It’s in his Blood (I love that boy)
My niece on Facebook: I just heard my son come running up the stairs laughing and yelling down to his sister, “I just took a picture of your tushy and I’m hitting send”, my heart stopped for a second as I pictured explaining that one to Children’s Services until I remembered that they only have […]