September 20, 2011
This Site Needs More Cowbell!
Good morning! It's an overcast one here in New England today. ~53°F and a bit drizzly at times. I dropped the girls off at their schools and had a decent commute into the office, listening to This Week in Tech #319, "Desktop is Dead" along the way.
Michelle has a pretty reasonable day ahead of her. She's teaching her 20/20/20 cardio/strength class now and has her daily radiation treatment after lunch.
Coarsening of the culture example #473: Couple who would have aborted disabled son awarded $4.5 million for ‘wrongful birth’
Via TalkSouthRadio: “Someone last week told me he doesn't worry about property taxes because his mortgage company pays the bill. Yes, he believes it.”
"It’s been said that a healthy marriage involves building “multiple marriages” with the same spouse." (Read More) [via @Joel_Schmidt ]
Via FrCharles: “God has always given me every reason to trust him and yet I hesitate still. That's the root of every unhappiness I insist upon for myself.”
Is the Catholic stance against contraception responsible for the AIDS-related deaths of millions of Africans? Excerpt: “Well, why not see what the data says? After all, these are the same atheists who routinely crow about being interested in real knowledge and reason, rather than faith. So let's put their faith to the test.”
I'd get my wife a Google ChromeBook, but one of the top things she does on her Linux netbook is run VLC for watching TV/movies. Hmm. Suggestions? One can't stream video while waiting at oncology. You need it played from your local drive.
More tweaks to Google+, especially in their mobile iOS/Android clients. And it's fully open now. Anyone can sign up. But still, will this be enough for them to take on Facebook? I hope so. I don't want them to become the Betamax of social networking: technically superior, but losing anyway.
Left work on the late side, listening to the rest of TWiT #319 from this morning along the way home. Decided to take the Rt. 2 to Rt. 13 way for a change of scenery since it was so late. I hadn't been this way in a while, but nothin' really changed.
Needed an ol' laugh so dug up one of the few online versions of More Cowbell. It's not the best video quality, but SNL is pretty tight-fisted with the online distribution.
A math joke: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one tells the bartender he wants a beer. The second one says he wants half a beer. The third one says he wants a fourth of a beer. The bartender puts two beers on the bar and says “You guys need to learn your limits.”
Northern Lights as seen from space, taken by astronaut Ron Garan. [via Google+]
Here's one for the kids, since they often ask things like this: Why do fingers wrinkle when wet?
A bit of nerd humor via krtgrphr: “Cats must love emacs. All those scratch buffers.”
Got Timothy tucked in bed with his prayers. Michelle took care of the twins as they were dawdling and I was falling asleep. Good night all!