I manage, somehow, to forget things from year to year, only to be reminded by nature that they call them seasons for a reason. First we had the Great Wasp Invasion of 2007, in which a series of wasps appeared on the inside of the blinds in our West-facing living room windows during a KU football game. That was solved … Continue reading
While Stumbling new pages during the last couple of days, I have run across several sites bemoaning the recent Google page-rank downgrading of a number of previously highly-rated sites . I even read one in which a blogger had decided to give up on Google entirely. There is much wringing of hands, rending of clothing, and self-loathing, with confusion and … Continue reading
What do you call a morning where you drop the soap in the shower twice, discover that all eight dishes from the leftovers warmed up the night before have been washed in the dishwasher, drop three of the first five ice cubes you try to put in your carafe of water to carry downstairs, find that the fan in your … Continue reading
I do not know why this one is so hard for people to understand. At the heart of the matter is the concept of “War for Profit,” which is an activity that the Unites States has become fairly good at, especially under Bush family rule. Under a militant entrepreneur of one sort or another, a group of ex-military people are … Continue reading
Even the Kansas Curmudgeon watches and keep track of the numbers. Thanks to both of my loyal readers, by the way, for showing up every day. ;o) Just kidding, we’re doing just fine, actually much better than we thought we would. But the numbers can be interesting. It is some sort of an unwritten law, I think, that one does … Continue reading
I do not know where it came from originally, though I tried to find out, but I have discovered the discovery if Bushcronium! I learned of these momentous events because I am a regular reader of The West Virginia Blogger and Bucky was on the ball again. This is the gist of the science news of the day: A major research … Continue reading
This essay was originally written 26 years ago for inclusion in a column (called Kermit’s Korner) which I wrote in the Netwits SIG section of Compuserve. It is as true today as it was then. My writing has (probably) improved, but the technique for keeping track of one’s head has stayed just the same. One of the unfortunate circumstances inherent … Continue reading
I was tagged by The West Virginia Blogger to put up a picture of my desktop. I actually have fifty or so photos that I have taken rotating at any one time, out of several hundred that I have shaved down to desktop size. This is my favorite of the current batch. It is the view over my back fence … Continue reading
I, for one, am getting more than a little tired of having the supporters of Firefox scream at me about how good their product is. I use it part of the time, for testing, and it is indeed a browser. Not a bad one, either. It is self-demeaning for them, though, to have to resort to that much hype just … Continue reading
I suppose that it would be possible to think of me as a Dutch-American. My ancestry is mixed European, really, with Dutch the largest component. My mother, who was in a great position to know, always told me that I was half-Dutch, half-Irish, half-English and half-assed. See, I told you that she ought to know. ;o) But I don’t think … Continue reading