For most of the year, we Midwesterners are stuck with vegetables grown somewhere down south and picked before they’re really ripe. Then they get trucked up here, artfully arranged in the supermarket and finally make it to our kitchens, where they taste… like nothing. Continue reading
“There must be some way out of here”, said the Joker to the Thief. Continue reading
They call it “The Evil Empire”. They call it “M$”. They call it “Microsuck”. Now, it seems, Microsoft wants to be known as The People’s Champion. It has taken a step that “Don’t Be Evil” Google and Firefox-creators Mozilla have vocally refused to do. It has announced that in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 10, the “Do Not Track” setting will be on by default. Continue reading
As the headline says, passwords to headhunting-slash-social-networking site LinkedIn and “headhunting”-slash-“social networking” site eHarmony have been hacked and are in the wild. A hacker posted files with literally millions of passwords to these sites in public, asking for help.
Security experts say that the hacker probably has many more passwords than he or she posted, and was just asking for help cracking the stronger ones (or subtly boasting about it). To be on the safe side, assume that this hacker and others by now have ALL LinkedIn and eHarmony passwords, and change yours (and if you used the same username and password on other internet sites, change it there too). Continue reading
Jeb Bush, of the Florida Bushes, believes that President Obama should thank George W. Bush for his foreign policy leadership.
I would argue in some ways, by reality seeping kind of into his life as the Commander-in-Chief, that a lot of it is modeled after [Bush] 43. And it would be nice, a little tip of the hat might be a nice thing. I think it would be helpful for him politically.
The only analogy I can come up with is thanking my dog for the baggie of poop I have to pick up. Can you do any better?
It became apparent during the Ray Bradbury obituary post that a lot of people here are re-readers. Are you one?
We almost invariably start out as re-readers. Little kids will ask for the same bedtime story over and over, long past the point at which the adult is sick and tired of it. But to turn that on its head, I once had some small friends I read bedtime stories to regularly, and I loved reading them ‘Winnie the Witch’ for the umpteenth time.
I’m a serious re-reader. I read Colette’s ‘Le Fanal Bleu’ over again once every five years or so, except I can’t find my copy and am starting to hyperventilate.
Go on, get to it. Continue reading
What is National Running Day you ask?
From the National Running Day website:
“National Running Day, held annually on the first Wednesday in June, is a day when runners everywhere declare their passion for running. Wherever we are and whomever we’re with, we run—fast or slow, alone or with others, all over town or just around the block. It is a coast-to-coast celebration of a sport and activity that’s simple, inexpensive, and fun. It’s the perfect way for longtime runners to reaffirm their love of running and for beginners to kick off a lifetime and life-changing commitment.” Continue reading
Ray Bradbury lived most of his life in the Los Angeles area. Starting in 1950, when he lived in Venice, he took the street car twenty miles to attend a writers’ group that met in a library in Torrance. For the rest of his life he returned to that library every year to give a public lecture.
I saw him there in about 2003, when he was in a wheelchair, but despite that he stood up at the lectern to talk to us. As soon as he was done, he got back into the wheelchair. Continue reading
This article contains terms that are NSFW unless you work at a women’s healthcare organization. Continue reading