BING!

According to the OPM, federal employees in the DC metro got a two hour early release today due to inclement weather. Of course, when the pronouncement was made, there was nothing more inclement than a light rain. Still, we weren’t going to say no to two fewer hours stuck in that dump of a hotel’s […]

Scalzi on Facebook, pretty much echoing my feelings on the service, which I have, previously, mentioned a bit here, where, incidentally, you can also find a link to my facebook account.

Professional writers and typesetters agree, two spaces after a period is wrong, and has been wrong at least since the mid 1970s when typewriter technology finally overcame the scourge of monospaced fonts. Still, however, the “two spaces after the end of a sentence” rule has become ingrained in my head thanks to the incorrect proclamation […]

Epiphany. Reading this piece maybe made me have one. Please consider this your first “slacktivist is worth reading” post of 2011.

One more reason for my continuing (and not-at-all-creepy old guy) crush on internet music phenom Molly Lewis: Amazing hand-painted Doctor Who themed Matryoshka dolls, given freely as a Christmas gift, humbly posted on twitter, and garnering thousands of admiring hits. Assuming licensing issues could be worked out, she really ought to market these. Though mostly, […]

Happy Boxing Day, everybody. Being that Christmas is behind us, and the last week of the year is beginning, it’s getting to be the time for reflection. So, I humbly present what you might call “a year in review”, of a sort, at least. To start things off, I’ll deal with this little space you’re […]

While I don’t have much to say on the explicit topic at hand in this post from slacktivist, I can say that every time I’ve ever found myself in a similar position than Fred describes, I felt at least, if not more (given the fact that I didn’t grow up in the Evangelical subculture) uncomfortable. […]

It’s a Monday on the road, and as is my custom, I ventured out to the local Trader Joe’s for my bag of organic apples and bread-product-to-be-determined-by-price-and-impulse (since I head off to work before this hotel usually puts out it’s breakfast spread), and finally succumbed to temptation and bought a bottle of the infamous Two […]

Walking in to the office today, I noticed that the flag was flying at half-staff, and I couldn’t come up with a reason why right away. I immediately started running through the names of the living presidents and which of them might be on death’s door, though there was nothing mentioned on the news this […]