Not for good of course, just for the year. The last couple of weeks of the year are always something of a dead time here in U.S. government-land. In fact, so many people are out on vacation that the government actually mandates a freeze on all activity related to production servers. We do important work […]
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I’ve just about had it with spam. I mean I get a lot of spam every day and most of it gets caught by my filters and it’s not that much of a problem except for the amount; but, I have to visually scan to make sure real mail has not been misfiled in the […]
Well even though I haven’t mentioned it I’ve been barreling along on my Christmas knitting. I finished the sweater for my son. My husband agreed to model it then did all the fashion poses so I’ve clipped one to use here. It’s a bit big on Paul but you can still see the texture on […]
Last night my husband happened upon some YouTube videos of Eddie Izzard. It had been a while since I’d seen his stand-up acts and so we ended up watching several of the videos. Today, I happened upon the Mac/PC Christmas commercial. That got me to thinking about humor. The most important thing about both of […]
Looking at a few news sites today, I learned that Korean scientists have cloned cats that are florescent in UV light. The first article said: The Ministry of Science and Technology said a team led by Kong Il-keun, an animal cloning expert at Gyeongsang National University, manipulated the RFP in the skin tissue of Turkish […]
It’s me again. A couple of days ago Gayle mentioned here that we were looking for a tree topper. There appears to be two types commonly available: The Angel, and the Star. So far, none of them of really appeal to us. For me, the angel is really a non-starter. I’ve just never like the […]
I caught an article on Science Daily about how people enjoy a movie more when they see it with other people. Now this sounds pretty “doh!” to me, but then science often proves the known in order to move on and be sure they understand the underlying reasons for things. However, in reading the article, […]
So, what do you do when faced with writer’s block. Well, I don’t know about you but I clean or attempt to clean the house. It seems that if you can’t do what you should do, you ought to at least try to do something positive. Cleaning is not only a positive activity, it leaves […]