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Boundless enthusiasm, and where it gets ya. The award I’m proudest of winning in life is the “Most Enthusiastic” pin at Church Farm School Summer Day Camp, when I was 11 years old. I agree with Nietzsche in two things: 1) How you approach life determines, to a great extent, what your experience of life…

I’m taking a personal day from work today. Let’s see if I can get all the following done:  Vent the gas dryer through the ceiling of the laundry room and out to a new soffit vent Half-done. I had to go to Home Depot, a local hardware store, and Loews, and still wasn’t able to…

Mormons create Household Google for the 1880 census. It rocks! After 17 years of typing (seriously!), the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has finished data entry of the 1880 Census, in its entirety. It’s online now, at http://www.familysearch.org. I found my great-grandmother Anna Thomas (whose travel diary is on this site), as well…

It’s not a phone, it’s a wedgie machine Also: help me choose a ringtone! I drove down the Fairfax County Parkway to the Fair Oaks mall yesterday evening and stood for at least half an hour looking at all the phones. The sensible choice would have been a Nokia 3390, which after my longtime-customer discount…

I dropped my trusty Nokia 6100 phone over the weekend; it still works, but the display is now blank. Hurrah, time for a guilt-free new phone! The coolest one out there seems to be the Samsung T100 (T105 in the USA), and with a review like this, how can I resist? T100 SAMSUNG Review by:…

I had a terrible, horrible, very bad, no-good morning yesterday, as I got to the Exton train station just in time to see the Amtrak train pulling out — I’d missed my train for the first time in two years! So I decided to drive in, but forgot that you have to carpool into the…

I left for Washington, DC from West Chester at 6:00 AM this morning, hoping to beat the worst of the morning traffic around the beltway. Sadly, however, a bus driver was shot in the city just before I left, and by the time I came through the Harbor Tunnel in Baltimore, entire sections of 95,…

It’s a demographic, demographic, demographic, demographic world. I’m back on the train to NYC today, after driving home from Herndon last night. It feels like I’m back home; the woman at the Cookie Cafe in Thirtieth Street Station said “Where have you been? I haven’t seen you!”, and one of the familiar faces on the…

I’m in Herndon, Virginia most of this week (like I’ve been the past coupla weeks.) No one’s talking about anything but the local sniper attacks on the radio, but I’ve heard very few actual people talking about it. Anyhow, [My employer] has actually been very nice about it: our head of Technology for the company…

I’m gonna let this man look at my log files. Possibly, he will go blind. I was driving back from DC last night, scanning the radio stations, when I came across a slow-voiced Christian preacher (Chuck Swindoll, pictured at left) speaking about the deadly… dangers… of… online… pornography. Hot damn! Unfortunately, he didn’t get into…