Digital Whittler

Just checked the bees today and they are doing fine. Looks like they’re starting to fill up the first super, so hopefully they’ll have honey to get them through the winter.

This is a half-baked idea at this point that I hope to turn into a more fully-baked post in the future.
Someone asked me today for a good metaphor for a content management system.
[10:46] Bogey:  other metaphors you’ve seen that work for the non techno crowd?
[10:46] IMMarkkennedy: I think of it as a refinery
[10:46] IMMarkkennedy: You […]

My first step to getting organized was clearing out the piles of mail and other crap that have been gathering around the house. It took severl hours, but I cleared out all of the piles, filed what needed to be filed and threw away what needed to be thrown away. I also managed to clear […]

Amnesty International pins some blame for Cuban human rights abuses on… the United States?

Wonkette hits on something that I’ve been thinking for the past couple of days:
Sure, Newsweek maybe should have shown a little more restraint before publishing their Koran-in-the-commode story, but I think it’s a little much for the White House and others to be so indignant about the whole thing since I still think it’s likely […]

Though it may not be accurate or appropriate, I have to admit that my first reaction when hearing about another Italian hostage was, “Well, of course. It must be pretty well-known amongst the terror ranks that Italians pay top Euro ransoms for their citizens which would seem to make them more valuable targets.”
In these hostage […]

So that’s what that was…
I was on the phone this morning when I heard what sounded like military jets flying over head. When I looked out the window, I saw a small plane in the sky. I thought it was odd because I know we’re pretty close to restricted airspace. I guess it wasn’t a […]

Craig’s list is simply amazing. Today we were cleaning out some closets. We decided on several things that we flat out wanted to just get rid of including a CD player, an electric blanket, some snorkel gear, and an area rug. So I posted 4 notices on Craigs List. And within an hour and a […]

This is a pretty cool Java applet that lets you visualize the popularity of any given name in the last 100 years. My favorite: Porfirio. Apparently no one has been named Porfirio since the 1950s
The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager

So, the Washington Post has a format for their obituaries that lists the deceased name followed by a one or two word description of their profession, avocation, hobby, etc., followed by the actual obit. For example:
Joe Moneybags
Banker
or
Jane Law
Lawyer
or
Thomas Edison
Inventor
Edward Patten, a member of Gladys Knight & The Pips, died last Friday at the age of […]