By now, you may have heard about the bad lottery advice dished out by “lottery expert”, Richard Lustig, this Monday morning on the FOX “News” channel. “Buy as many tickets as you can afford.” Business Insider calls this “literally the worst lottery…
News of the loss of a good friend reached me today. Ryan B. Squires passed away three years ago on this date, but it has taken until today for this sad and surprising realization to hit me. And it knocked the…
The headline of a Slate article about a “Good woman with a gun” caught my eye this afternoon: Good woman with a gun shoots up Home Depot parking lot trying to take down suspected shoplifters The 47-year-old woman had a concealed…
Several months ago, I blogged So long and thanks for all the fish about leaving my job at Dell Software (who had acquired Quest Software). At the time I said little about what I was planning to do, other than I was…
Twenty years ago today, just about this time of day (slightly before 8 AM PDT), my rope team and I reached the rim of the Mount Rainier summit crater. I wrote in some details about that Mt. Rainier Summit Climb two years ago, on…
How did you parse the title of this post? Did you apply the adjective “misguided” to “welfare recipient”? Or did you apply it to “welfare recipient drug testing”? It’s funny how we always hear about government being too big, about how we need to get government out of…
Do you know about the Up-Goer Five word making thing? It is an interesting idea to write using only the ten hundred most used words. It is not easy, but it really forces you to focus on what to say.…
Surprise! Not. George Zimmerman, once again, is back in the news for a story involving the (mis)use of firearms. This time, it was Mr. Zimmerman on the wrong end of the gun. And with an ironic twist normally reserved for soap operas or…
Did you know that today is Openly Secular Day? (Or even that it was a thing?) The mission of Openly Secular is to eliminate discrimination and increase acceptance by getting secular people (i.e., atheists, freethinkers, agnostics, humanists and nonreligious people)…
For the past 5+ years, I worked for Quest Software and, after an acquisition, Dell Software. It’s been an honor and a privilege to meet and work with so many intelligent, talented, and fun people! But today, it was time to turn…