Progressive Odyssey

Sorry Sister, but we stumbled across this photo in Land's End and have to blow the whistle on your modeling gig.  I'm sure it was go...

Using half the amount of water when making my first batch of root beer.  (The results were not good.) Using twice the amount of sugar in the...

This American Life , still one of my favorite radio programs/podcasts, created an excellent story on the sub-prime meltdown/credit-crunch.  ...

A co-worker of mine sent out an email yesterday saying that she had free tickets to a concert here in town for the first four who were inter...

Since its spring and we don't have many flowers blooming yet, I decided to do my part by posting a few of the flower pictures I've t...

Check out Flickr for the latest pictures of Basil, our puppy.  These were all taken in the past few weeks and are therefore are somewhat rec...

I meant to write about this earlier but as soon as I was done, I wanted to purge the event from my mind.  Last Friday I took the GRE and, be...

A good friend of mine was recently replacing the tiles in this kitchen floor and made an interesting observation about the psychology of hom...

A  few reflections on being a new dog owner: I'm guessing, and have had it confirmed by people who would know, that getting a new p...

I'm finally getting my act together and put a large number of photos onto my Flickr page last night.  They are unorganized and don't...

Our dog-hunt has ended and we are now the proud owners of a five month old English Springer Spaniel we've named Basil C Terwilliger (...

Its hard to explain but the pebble that started the avalanche that is buying a house was a desire to have a dog.  Or, more specifically, Kat...

For those of you who know me pretty well the following will not surprise you: I have been very annoyed by the fact that all of the clocks i...

I stumbled across some video demonstrations yesterday that, as they say, captured my imagination.  The videos show some high-level nerdery ...

Well, we're back home and in full swing to try to get our lives in order.  The flights home were on time and uneventful except for one i...

I've posted another batch of pictures to Flickr , the set that will go up "from the field." We fly back in about six hours (o...

Just posted a few more pictures to my Flickr site. There should be more photos in the near future. I just need to caption them. Oh, and ...

Before heading out to one of the tourist sites for the day, my wife and I stopped into the local Subway to get some sandwiches for the road...

As I've written before, the car is not the primary means of transportation for most people living in Beijing. Public transportation and...