Silvia, the fat gray cat of this household, caught a rat last month and today caught a bird. I think this proves the process of evolution, because only a really slow rat or a really dumb bird would have gotten caught by the tub of lard named Silvia.
But catch a bird she did and she [...]
Pepper Schwartz has made a name for herself in the field of sex research. She is published many books about all things sexual. One of her last books was about her journey through her late 50’s after she left her second marriage, one of 23 years. Her blog on the Seattle PI had this bit [...]
I don’t know if I am a liberal or a conservative. A colleague at work said that “I’m pretty conservative”, but I’m willing to bet that if we engaged in detailed policy discussions that he and I are not that far apart. I don’t think that he has a lot in common with the cretins [...]
I watched this with the kids last night and we talked about it afterward. The movie is a fictionalized account of drug raids in Texas that targeted black people living in housing projects.
The drug raids were based on the testimony of a single informant. The criminal case fell apart and one woman, at the behest [...]
One of the things that I put up with is listening to songs from 30 years ago being turned into commercials today. Taco Bell just used “One More Time” by Joe Jackson in some TV spot. The song has nothing to do with tacos or bells. Feh.
After all these years, I think I understand something. I have been wondering why I am not interested in the women I meet these days. I meet them, they are attractive, they are available, but nothing happens. We talk, compare notes, compare histories, and part.
When I was younger, wanting to be with someone was the [...]
When I was doing operations research around the Pershing missile system in Germany, about 30 years ago, I became familiar with the term ‘quick fix’. For every failure on the launch pad, there was a ‘quick fix’, the first thing thing in the diagnostic chain that was to be checked or replaced. There were gnarly [...]
I had been meaning to write a wrap up about spending two weeks in Milan, but I wasn’t really inspired to do it. I was somewhat disappointed with the time I spent there. I think my disappointment was more about unmet expectations than anything else.
I lived in Germany for 6 1/2 years about 30 years [...]
When visiting Rome, don’t stay near the train station. We took a train with a late booking from Milano to Roma Termini. The area around the train station is crawing with tourists. As is most of central Rome, but then this is just more so. We stayed in a hotel that was the upper two [...]
I am spending two weeks in Milan, working with a vendor on a project for our company. The guys at this company are engineers, like me and my colleague, and it is enjoyable working with them. Engineer humor appeals mostly to other engineers, so I won’t try to describe it here.
I am staying in a [...]