One of my favorite gifts last Christmas was completely unexpected: a sound-activated moving 3D triceratops wooden puzzle. My wife found it at our local Steinmart (it’s sadly no longer available via their website, but here’s what appears to be an acceptable alternative). The box looked a bit intimidating, as I’ve found that I’m usually less… Continue reading The Cretaceous Clapper
Month: January 2017
Band of Bow Tie Brothers
The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. –Fight Club, in apparent violation of its own rule Unlike with Fight Club (and very much like CrossFit fanatics/Vegan dieters/Gluten-free adherents) the first rule of bow tie wearers is: You talk about it. I’ve learned the truth of this only lately.… Continue reading Band of Bow Tie Brothers
We’re gonna browse (and recruit) like it’s 1996
Travel back in time with me, if you will, to the year 1996, and contemplate the state of technology two decades ago. In 1996, just 20 million American adults had access to the Internet, about as many as subscribe to satellite radio today. The dot-com boom had already begun on Wall Street–Netscape went public in… Continue reading We’re gonna browse (and recruit) like it’s 1996
Eternity Defined
I read this somewhere; I forget where and perhaps the actual details are different, but here’s a definition of eternity that I like: Imagine a block of granite a thousand miles thick, floating in space. Every thousand years, a raven alights on it and sharpens its beak with two flicks…back and forth. The raven flies… Continue reading Eternity Defined
Finally, some wildlife…
Yesterday, I reported some disappointment in my new trail camera’s failure to capture anything more interesting than passing traffic, due to my failure to aim it properly. However, that was before I noticed the latest batch upload of photos, one of which caught something quite interesting. I’m still getting a lot of shots of F-150s… Continue reading Finally, some wildlife…