My desktop’s motherboard died in its sleep last night. I was able to get our IT guy at work on the phone this morning—he’s there before 6 most days—and he taught me about do-it-yourself drive enclosures, so with a quick trip to GigaParts I was able to rescue everything onto my laptop and an external … Read more
I’ve made peace with the fact that I’m probably not going to be a multimillionaire. Oh, I still hold out the hope that somehow I’ll figure out a way to get $10,000 for a dinner speech, or otherwise find my way to piles of money for just being myself. But realistically, it wasn’t a big … Read more
Our firstborn is looking a lot like a hockey player these days. I lost three teeth on Christmas Day 1977, but an exceptionally hard Christmas tree lollipop hastened nature a bit in that case. This is three in a two-week period for Nathan. He has two permanent teeth so far. During a break in the … Read more