Category: Daily Life
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Music, Free Broadband in KC, and Stuffed Animals
Yeah… very, very busy day today. Likely a very very busy day tomorrow, too. So busy that the feed is really sparse. And, it seems, has ended up being mostly music-related. But there is that bit about Kansas City, MO, setting it up so that, aside from a $300 setup fee, a whole bunch of…
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Unintended Consequences Strike Again, Entertainment Both Classic and New, A Bit of Cute, and a Return to Space
The big news today (for me, at least) was the announcement of the U.S. return to manned space missions. NASA will once again be shooting humans into orbit (with some help form Boeing and SpaceX)! Now, that’s not quite the manned exploration mission style I’d prefer to see… but it’s better than nothing. I’d love…
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It Was a Busy Weekend, Full of Stuff and Work
The past week or so at the day job has been ridiculous. Huge deadlines on a huge project that’s really too huge for the timeline it was scheduled for. Of course, it does look like we’ll be close enough. It also looks like it’s driving me utterly mad with stress. So, the feed is a…
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The Blackest Burger, The Sun is Trying to Kill Us, Congress Sells Out, and Remembering 9-11
Today was a very long day at work. There are another couple of days like that looming in the near future. It really didn’t help that there was a lot more on my mind today than work. I would have rather spent the day reading about politics and how Congress just dropped the ball on…
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A Whole Lot on Net Neutrality, A View of the End of Civilization, and Some Happier Things
Today was a big day in the fight for Net Neutrality. It was another big push to fill the public comment boxes at the FCC with our very solid desire that the Internet remain open and accessible, regardless of what company gets it to your screen. Cable companies and phone companies (like Comcast and Verizon)…