Look who was waiting for me when I came out to lunch today! This is a species of Magicicada, and part of Brood XIX. It just hatched, almost certainly this week, from an egg laid in 1998. How cool is that? They’ll only be here about a month, and they don’t bite, sting, spit, or … Read more
Our wedding anniversary was Tuesday. Thanks for an inspiring and fulfilling first 14 years, Lea. I love you. I’ve allowed my effort to get traction at work after the unplanned hiatus to take much too much of my bandwidth. I have to get tornado recovery back into the mix to a larger degree. Three days … Read more
So Microsoft is going to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. I just barely know what Skype is, which, if you know me, shouldn’t be surprising. With few exceptions, I view the telephone as a means, not an end. Let’s make the plan with it, not have it be the plan. My attitude toward it ranges … Read more