The silence pressed in on his mind, and he was grateful. He realized that the sound of rain fleshed out the silence, and that rain was not in fact silence. But he accepted it as an active silence, and befriended it. They lay in the darkness together, he, and the active silence.
He […]
This is a longer story, written several years ago.
Ellen curled her legs under her on the couch, leaning against the arm of the sofa, intently watching the TV. Her eyebrows were almost imperceptibly knitted together, and her hands were already clutched. Dave was sitting facing her from the side room, […]
One of America’s favorite past-times is cars. Cars that draw attention, turn heads, impress neighbors, these are the best cars. Cars that people can’t forget. We want the world to know about our cars. Yeah, well, I’ve got one of those. And I can’t get rid of it.Some years […]
It is not just right and proper for Americans to meet new cries of impending disaster with skepticism. It is the foundation upon which the strength of our country was borne. In the days preceding the Revolution, there were separatists frothing at the mouth for decades, hoping to tear down the walls of […]
Ok, so it might seem strange that a blog that only gets updated about every 9 months at the current rate should choose something as distant and seemingly trivial to my life as the current case of Henry Louis Gates Jr. (I like this article best)
But his case brings out a lot of humanity. The […]
In light of my last post, it is so appropriate that the following events transpired. And yet…well, I don’t mind.So…Let me tell you a tale of woe from a couple weeks back. There I was, driving along early morning down the coast of Washington. The surf was fine, the light was just getting good, I […]
So…I was looking over an article at ParentHack.com, and found myself compelled to post a comment. I don’t often read there, let alone write, mostly because it seems to me that the population there is a peculiar subset of Us, that lives in this weird dreamworld where everything can be conquered with emotional duct tape […]
I was hoping to post a couple bits during my trip to Quebec, but my ability to be online was cut short at a bad moment…So even though I’m back home…stand by for some Quebec posts…
So first, let me critique my rental car experience. I was hoping to rent a Ford Fusion Hybrid. I was […]
I know how it feels. Believe me, I know. Hanging on, day by day, the suspense of waiting for my words to grace the halls of this blog. I should tell you something about myself right now. I tend to blog in bursts, and well…June wasn’t part of one. Neither was May, though I gave […]
Yesterday I took my first of 7 Microsoft tests towards MCSE certification. I won. 1down, 8 days and 6 tests to go.
I don’t know if it’s just me or what, but in all the places I’ve been where technology was being used to extend our abilities, the most persistent and difficult problems to arise were in the realm of communication. Communication between human and machine, machine and human, and the hardest nuts to crack - human […]
February 27th, 2008.
Today, I wept.
A package came for me yesterday. The mailman left a note that since I wasn’t here, it would be waiting for me at the Post Office. Today, I went to claim that package.
The package contained the cremated remains of my birth-mother, who died on Feb. 11, after 62 […]
And so it appears that, through a long and strange chain of events, I begin a blog. One would think, based on the fact that I am a technical consultant, that it would be about something - well - technical. But that’s not on the menu today. Today’s menu includes the behavior […]