words of advice for young people

In a previous entry I expressed my sincere admiration for my great-grandfather's quote that he'd rather be poor near a great library...

We had esteemed colleagues from Ireland visiting this week, and a veep had the idea to take them all for drinks at Bloomington's ' I...

'I'd rather die a pauper in the shadow of the libraries of Chicago than roll in wealth in Oklahoma.' That's what my great ...

Yesterday we stayed at the West Baden Springs Hotel as part of its soft-opening. It is a site to see, and has not been a hotel since 1932 (...

Inspired by the 'Hip-Hop Nuggets' issue of ' Stop Smiling Magazine - the magazine for high-minded low-lifes ', and the fact ...

Don't play me like I got a flower pot head, kid In response to the widespread conservative outrage at rap lyrics following Don Imus'...

The day after the encounter with the drunk Swedes and the drunk Icelanders we planned to make a serious effort to see the Northern Lights, b...

BioMedenetix is on the cutting edge of the growing Biotech industry and promises to bring much-needed hope to a region gutted by the ongoing...

Reykjavik water's edge After being dropped off at Hotel Odinsve we decided to take a nap. We got in the tiny elevator (my experienced ...

Mary Grabar has a Ph.D. in English. She wrote a screed on the townhall site about Sam Harris. Her comments on science have been dismissed...

You can tell it's Reykjavik because of the Hallgrimskirkja back there. We recently took a break from the corporate grind to do som...

Inspired by this achewood strip . One of 5403003 Greasemonkey scripts inspired by same. Code follows, chochachos. ------------------------...

I've been a life-long fan of animation and recently have been reading the history/how-to/survey ' Animation: The Whole Story ' b...

The Union, CWA, made the announcement the week before Memorial Day. This wasn't going to be an old school strike, where everyone would ...

Now that both James Brown's and Gerald Ford's corpses have cooled off a bit, I noticed CNN has decided to report on other stories ag...

This December, my daughter and I watched the 1964 Christmas special 'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer' more times than I care to admit...

I was listening to Retro-Active on MusicChoice the other night (typically I listen to Electronica (Uncensored), the only channel with the ...

I was there, kids, back in '04 when the CWA (Communication Workers Of America, 'Fighting for jobs and healthcare') went up again...

I was reading wake up and smell the asphalt recently, by another running and DBAing person (she apparently has escaped IT for greener pastu...

In 2004, SBC hadn't yet bought AT&T and changed their name back to AT&T. I worked in the Indianapolis SBC building as a code mo...