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It’s definitive – we are having a 20th year high school reunion.  I’m not entirely certain how I feel about the whole thing.  Thinking back, I don’t have too many fond memories of high school.  In fairness, I don’t do well with event-type recollection, so I don’t have too many memories in general from that [...]

It looks like the average IQ of democratic senators and the average IQ of republican senators have both declined today.  Hopefully there will be a 2010 challenger in the PA democratic primaries.

If only we could get Carol Burnett to highlight the plight of the lonely possums on the muppet show.  Of course, she would get all interupted by Gonzo’s dance marathon, but hey, rehabbers will take what they can get.
K got in a solitary young opossum last night.  Sad little girl (the possum, not K… at [...]

… and he and Tim Berners-Lee want you to stop breaking the Internet.
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had several occasions to be invited into someone’s walled garden on the internet.  You know the places.  Lovely little sites that are entirely self-contained and which you can’t access unless you are a member?  In the [...]

They may take our rehabilitation bins, but they’ll never take… our FREEDOM!
On Sunday, K release some baby water turtles that she had been over-wintering.  Fortunately, we’re all of a mile from a good place at which to release turtles, Jordan Lake, so we didn’t have to drive too far.
The big one in the image set [...]

For the first time in about 10 years I planted a garden.  We are always drawn to shaded lots, so we’ve never had a place for one before.  Even here we’ve got five acres… and they are all wooded.  Normally?  Great.  For a garden, it’s kinda the suck.  This year, I decided to plant a [...]

Tomorrow is April 15th, tax day.  And in case you’ve missed it, republicans, flat taxers, gold fetishists, racists, defense nuts and other extreme conservatives are planning to host tea parties tomorrow.  Tea parties?  Yep.  Protests, harkening back to the days of the Boston Tea Party when proto-American patriots dumped tea into Boston harbor to protest [...]

Some of the more social people from my high school class in Louisiana are apparently putting together a reunion.  They’ve managed to track down maybe 90+% of the class and have just sent out a (scanned?) copy of the senior class photo.  I defy you to find more 80’s hair in a picture.  The sad [...]

I’m never a big fan of April Fools day, mostly because I’m too guilible for my own good.  That said, on occasion I get in the mood.  This year, a colleague and I discussed sending out an email to the staff of our company, regarding the IT infrastructure.  We got permission from the boss, because, [...]