It wasn’t all bad.
I am bad at personal retrospectives. While I’d like to say it’s because I generally don’t do them until my birthday (vs. at end-of-year like most people), that’s not the entire story. It doesn’t matter … Read more
world events and politics
Looking backwards.
I knew a few weeks ago this was coming, sort of. I gave a talk at DevOpsDays where I said, “And a year ago I was about half-way through my very brief tenure at the … Read more
Thank you.
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. Thank you, Obama. This means more than I ever would have expected it to.
Shamelessly stolen.
A Marine squad was marching north of somewhere when they came upon an insurgent soldier badly injured and unconscious. Nearby, on the opposite side of the road, was an American Marine in a similar but … Read more
There’s a lot of quotes…
re: the recent tragedy in London here, but these are my favorites: ‘It’s hard to panic the British. They’ve dealt with the Blitz, the IRA, the Silurians, the Zarbi, the Daleks, the Cybermen…’ To quote … Read more
For some reason, I find it comforting to remind myself that not all conservatives are completely insane.
Honestly, with some of conservatives, I simply disagree with them, which just means we analyze the same data and come to different conclusions. There are anti-war conservatives. There are anti-deficit conservatives. They do exist. Take … Read more
Some of us want to apologize.
Like this:
Lemme make something very clear right now…
I am not remotely politically or socially conservative. At least, not in the broad spectrum of things. Maybe a little bit when you compare me to those around me — the über-lefties that inhabit Berkeley. … Read more
Meow!
Seems that Canadian Liberal Leader McGuinty is “an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet.” And here I thought the White House had rounded up all of them as “advisors.”
Between the sushi lunch and after I got home, I had a lot of beer yesterday.
Probably as many calories in beer as anything else I ate all day. That’s not good, is it? I’ll moderate that better in the future. Major heat wave in Europe, too, not just Dallas. It’s … Read more