I thought that I’d write a big long story about Relative vs Absolute once I’d had it all figured out in my mind. But I’ve come to find that it’s actually better to type away here, to sort out and compartmentalize my thoughts, rather than come to the blog with full stories. So in that… Read more

I just finished reading (or being told, via audiobook) the Great Courses on Comparative Economies: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism. It was a great read that didn’t compare in the abstract sense; it was more like focusing on specific countries, what kind of economy they used to have, and what they have today. It was an okay… Read more

Last Tuesday I took the day off. Laina and I went to St Louis to pick up Ted from the airport. Before we got him we stopped at MicroCenter and picked up some black and orange filament for the printer. It was on sale for Black Friday. I’m still maybe only halfway done with the… Read more

…by Jack Handy I’ve spent all Saturday morning clearing leaves, for the second weekend in a row. Whereas past years this was an unbearable task, with all the mowing and dumping and shaking the vacuum hose to unclog and all that, now I have a pretty good system. Jack put mulching blades on the mower… Read more

I bet the guy who discovered Non-Hodgkins lymphoma was pissed when they named it “Non-Hodgkins” instead of naming it after him. Like, was this Hodgkins guy so beloved by other scientists that they even put his name on stuff he didn’t discover? Read more

The kids had their Finding Nemo Jr. musical this weekend. Emma was Bubbles, one of the main fish in the tank. She had a plastic chicken head that blew bubbles. It originally made some crazy clucking sound too, but we disassembled it and clipped the speaker wire. I was proud of that fix because I… Read more