Having recently acquired a 3G Kindle Keyboard, I've spent a fair bit of time exploring its capabilities.  Yes, I have spent some money on Amazon for a few ebooks. (My first Amazon purchase took place in October 1995, so we go waaaay back.)  Although […]

I drive a truck for a living, so I just had to smile when I saw this. (Click the cartoon for the punchline.)

having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that […]

Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I […]

I’ve been playing around with Twitter for a day or so, and now I *think* I have things fairly well-integrated. We’ll see just how much of a feedback loop this produces once it gets propagated.

I’m on my way out the door now, for a weekend road trip to Galion OH via Buffalo. I’ll have sporadic access to email, but my phone will be off most the time.

Well actually, there were no undead in Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Nor have I read the 2009 mashup I reference in this post title. (I’m curious, though, and a big fan of the Austen original so I may pick it up one of these days.) A […]