Monthly Archives: May 2009

Life Updates

A few updates: On the home front: We are having the floors on the top two floors of our townhouse completely replaced. It is a huge project trying to get ready.  Everything will have to be moved out of each … Continue reading

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Today’s Amusing IM Convo with Spouse

Cover of Splash (20th Anniversary Edition) One of the bigger newspapers in Maine has a Twitter feed that I follow (@pressherald.) Today, it tweeted: Maine’s No. 1 baby names for 2008: Emma and Jacob bump Madison and Ethan. And hello, … Continue reading

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Too Many Books

Cover of Europe: A History I’ve written a version of this post at least half a dozen times, but here we go again.. We need to get rid of some more books in our house. We’re having new floors put … Continue reading

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Much Brokenness – Tasers and Village Smears

Digby has been on the case of taser abuse for months and what it says about not only the criminal justice system and law enforcement but our society as a whole. In her latest post on the subject: It’s not … Continue reading

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Sensing Some Similarity

I have not delved very deeply into the explosion in the Rails community that apparently began with some ill-considered slides in a presentation. Mike G. is on top of it and decided there was too much nonsense and denial and … Continue reading

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