The Year in Google Searches
This is how Google saw 2010: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE&feature=player_embedded]
Huntress kids 2010 Episode 5
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKhb9qbweik"] This is the last one in the series. Great music, and adorable children playing in the Portland sunshine.
Broken Health Care
"Do you have health insurance?" I overheard my friendly local barista asking one of her regulars. "No, what are you talkin about? Of course not," he shrugged. "Why?" "Because I was hoping you could fake a sinus infection for me, and get me some antibiotics, for my sinus infection." This is what we've come to. [...]
Huntress Kids 2010 Episode 4
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7SrZyVmAkI']
The Magic of Caffeine
Really, why do I bother trying to work without coffee? It's only after I've been sluggishly pulling myself through make-believe-working, when I look up from my web surfing and look at the clock, that I realize I've wasted precious hours by not being focused and productive. I put on a pot of dark, thick coffee, [...]
Huntress Kids 2010 Episode 3
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqkiJzGICRw] They just...get...cuter!
Winter Solstice, A Full Moon, and an Eclipse
December 21, 2010. There’s a lot going on. At 9PM PST on Monday, December 20, 2010, the first full lunar eclipse in three years will begin. At our longitude on the West Coast of North America, we will have one of the best views. At 3 am Tuesday, December 21, 2010 is the exact [...]
Letting Go
I get a lot of good ideas. LOTS OF THEM. There is a term for my type of adeptitiude: SCANNERS. People who are not masters of anything, but are pretty good at almost EVERYTHING. That’s me. My father-in-law pointed it out to me the other day. “You changed your brakes,” he said. “I don’t change [...]
I’ve been recaptured by my phone
True Story: Microsoft has moved me on a profoundly philosophical level. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHlN21ebeak] I’m especially sensitive to this concept right now, because I just rescued my kidnapped smartphone. For two weeks, I have been stuck with a dumbphone. I unplugged. No longer needing to check in at every venue where I could earn Points and Mayorships, [...]