Archive for August, 2006
Where do babies come from?
I remember having a book as a kid called “Where Did I Come From?” It was a book that tastefully explained sex, with cartoons of a chubby mommy and daddy hugging and kissing a lot. I don’t recall what its illustrations of birth looked like, but I [Read More]
More Flickr maps
Representing everywhere I’ve lived over the past ten years If you zoom in on Northern Virginia, you’ll see two different locations. In the Raleigh-Durham area, you’ll see four locations (five if you zoom really close in where there’s a dot that reads [Read More]
Cheaper gas
Jack Cafferty of CNN asked viewers what cheaper gas will mean to them. It’s been going down, and as much I personally appreciate a lower price of the pump, I don’t think it helps us as a whole. My response: Gas could go down to $0.99/gallon, and it would thrill [Read More]
Geotagging
Flickr now has geotagging for photos. Very cool, I think. I’ve been tagging my photos with locations in the hope it would be easy to geotag them once that feature was available, and it is. I just find a group a pics that were taken at the same location and drag them [Read More]
Tolerance
I just noticed that one of my LJ interests in “tolerant people”. I AM interested in tolerant people. I admire tolerance. But I am NOT a tolerant person. I am having difficulty coming up with a good definition of tolerance. The best Webster’s one for [Read More]
More on the end of faith
Ok, I’ll do this. I’ll write publicly about my thoughts on faith and belief. Life is short. I wasn’t reluctant to write more on this topic because of fear of offending. I was afraid that my remarks could hurt me down the road in a way I don’t expect. [Read More]
Katrina anniversary
I’m watching Brian Williams on NBC reporting on Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans. Having abandoned network news years ago, I didn’t realize how remarkable Williams’s reporting was. I have some newfound respect for him. Powerful stuff. And another [Read More]
U.S. gov spends 3x as much on Iraqis as Americans
Interesting blog post: Putting America Second [Read More]
What hath God wrought?
Digital camera + cats + lots of extra space on memory card + YouTube = Dave makes pointless videos starring his cats And, so, the apocalypse is upon us… [Read More]
