Thursday miscellanea #289

There is a lot of soccer on right now. Is there a big tournament or something? The Amazon Fire phone looks genuinely neat—particularly the Firefly feature—but I don’t see anything to break me away from Windows Phone. Also, bringing it out at $199 with contract seems more than a bit ambitious. I think $99 with … Read more

Mom’s engagement ring

My parents were married for 15 years. They’ve been divorced for 32. Mom’s been in heaven for 13. I just found out tonight that my sister Jenny has the engagement ring Dad gave Mom in (probably) 1966. She’s actually wearing it day to day right now. She’s lost too much weight for her own ring … Read more

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