Category Archives: Technical
a rant
Several close relatives have been urging my mother to get back on Synthroid to the exclusion of dealing with her other medical problems. The last any of them had anything at all close to medical training was high school biology … Continue reading
strawberries etc.
Our last freezing weather was less than two weeks ago, but I picked a ripe alpine strawberry yesterday afternoon, then found a few more this morning. Several days of high temperatures in the 80s °F (30°C) have speeded up growth … Continue reading
social networking and lent
I checked to see if blogging about giving up following Yahoo Groups for Lent registered in any search engines. It is not an exhaustive study, but it appears that many people gave up Facebook this year: Dad Wonders If He … Continue reading
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the Boston effect
I was on LiveJournal before MySpace and Facebook and enjoyed it. They had an active knitting community plus people I knew from PerlMonks were there. I remember reading that at one time a very high percentage of the Boston metro … Continue reading
digital TV woes
Well dear reader, it is starting to look like we have been had. I used the government web site to obtain a card for a $40 credit towards getting an analog to digital converter box for my TV last August. … Continue reading