A Useful Utility

| July 29, 2010

The office where I get my dental work done has a typo on their web page. It is in the phone number, and every time I try to call I first try the number listed, in case it has been corrected. It hasn’t. Today I solved this on a personal level, with Notezilla. Notezilla has […]

A rant

| July 28, 2010

I’ve recently been “informed” by about half a dozen people who do not know each other, and in different settings and different contexts, that only liberals are smart, and that all conservatives are stupid, ignorant, and closed-minded. One person who had just accepted my help with some things then mentioned that “conservatives are all assholes.” […]

Tonight’s dinner: Asian Chicken Salad

| July 28, 2010

Artgal is making it. 🙂 The salad: 1 head of lettuce 1 package maifon noodles 1 chicken, cooked green onions The dressing: 4 T sugar 2 t salt 1 t msg 1/2 t pepper 4 T vinegar 1/4 cup salad oil Boil noodles for a couple of minutes. Drain. Mix with other ingredients and dressing. […]

Why haven’t you read Dickens? You know you want to.

| July 10, 2010

My personal recommendation is Oliver Twist. David Copperfield is a very, very close second. And then you can tackle Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis’ non-fiction, and Charlotte’s Web. The book, not the movie. The point to all this? Never stop learning. You learned in elementary school because they told you to. You learned in high school […]