Just a piano player

When I first heard that McCain had picked Palin for Vice President, I was thrilled, thinking that this is a person who can really bring som...

Went out for a walk in the neighborhood with The Dog. He had a splendid time, as always. Four years ago, there was ONE house in our neighbo...

uh, oh!

amazing

Simulatneously, as I opened an email from Joe Biden, the phone rang and it was the local Obama campaign loooking for volunteers. So many pe...

this sure sounds like one of his stunts - he's done this sort of thing many times before. Meanwhile, as we are immersed in the triviali...

Microsoft has a new product called ' Photosynth '. Here is the National Geographic video of Stonehenge, using this tool.

Mark Crispin Miller was on, discussing recent developments in the civil case currently working its way thru Ohio courts, that is about to bl...

Left the house at 7:15, with Ben driving, to go to the Sherwood DMV office, where he took and passed his behind-the-wheel driver test. We ...

I see this meme everywhere: Obama must pick someone like Joe Biden, to calm 'fears' that his inexperience on the international stag...

This guy was on Bill Moyers' show last night, and it was refreshing to hear his plain-spoken message, that the US public and military an...

hot, hot, hot in Portland. Neither of us slept well last night, me due to a lingering cold and the heat, Karen because of the residual effe...

So, back at the beginning of July, I read somewhere (on the internets, no doubt) that it was expected that the Dollar would plummet in relat...

there are bigger issues

Made you look .

Several months ago, I was contacted by a BLM office in New Mexico, asking if I was interested in assisting with some programming work. Natu...

so, yet again, the Government announces 'case closed' on an investigation (the anthrax letters) that did not produce a definitive co...

We are in Manzanita for the week and the weather, at least for today, is delightful. I am sitting in the driveway of our rental hourse, poa...

I had to laugh .

the other world. Here 's another web site of interest, along the same lines. Incidentally, my Hebrew name is Baruch, which, obviously, ...