...and how we're all helping. A look at short memes, patriotism, free expression, and cogent reasoning. [More]

A quick bit of exploration and experimentation with this fascinating optical illusion [More]

BlogEngine.Net has a new release version out, but the upgrade process looks just complex enough that I probably won’t tackle it again until my next day off (which I really hope is Monday). In the “I just can’t believe this” department:  Tried to sneak out with my van for a quick spin to the store the other day and blew a tire a quarter-mile from home…just far enough to make sure there was no repairing the old one after driving it back.  Then I hit my b-i-l up for a ride to the store since he’d just got home…and we smacked a deer.  Suddenly that whole “having my car on the road... [More]

My objection isn't that the anti-abortion lobby bought ad time. It's a free country. My objection is that we as a nation continue to allow bottom-feeding fear-mongering snake-oil salesmen like James Dobson and his crew of blue-nosed hypocrites to coexist and be given equal intellectual consideration with facts and objective reality. [More]

What started off being a quick update about the site and it's content and somehow turned in to a stream-of-consciousness rant on a bunch of different stuff, mostly centering around the overarching current theme of my life, "Stuff I Need To Be Doing NOW" [More]

So as I’m working on this new look for the site, I’ve also been doing a lot of thinking.  Well, I’m always doing a lot of thinking, which sounds arrogant unless you do it in which case you know that it’s often more curse than blessing. I digress; what I’m thinking about is how to get you kind folks who read this site, watch my videos, or listen to the music I help create to start spreading the word a bit. The problem, as always, is that I just don’t have what you’d call an ‘advertising budget.’  A secondary problem is that I have no earthly idea what the hell I’m doing.  I... [More]