Like many others, I am happy for a new season of House of Cards. The show has the perfect blend of style, storytelling, plot and politics. With all 12 episodes released at once (on Valentine's Day), how much can we really enjoy the season? Watching blocks of four
Let me start by saying I know multitasking is bad. It can have adverse effects on your memory and make you overall less productive. But it’s that time every two years where we have the Olympic games: a series of international sporting events spread over two weeks. The one
Last night there were some issues with Dropbox. * The service went down. * Two major hacking groups took credit for it. * Dropbox said the service was down because of maintenance issues and that they were not hacked. * The hacking groups basically said "LOL we're kidding we didn'
Here in Michigan, we are having some epic cold and snow: 14 inches and the wind-chill is getting below 30 degrees. Yesterday was an epic day of covering the storm for work. I was getting ready for work and knew it would be a very long day. I spent a
This Text Expander snippit was helpful my first day back at the office in 20134.
Sad to hear the news that Yusef Lateef died. But what a blessing to have lived 93 years. He was one of favorite players. The soul he brought to songs. Not many players had as much soul and could jam so hard at the same time. Here's one
Apple's VIP list has changed how I use e-mail. Introduced in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion, the feature allows users to create a priority inbox of certain people you label as “important.” It really allowed me to get control of my e-mail and be notified of messages only
I wonder if things like this always happened, or if they increase because of ease to share on the internet. [Link]
I love my Meijer, and the sales it has on electronics. Once, I bought dozens and dozens of these on sale for 89 cents (original price $3-4). Items that go on sale are often the things people don't want. I shouldn't have been surprised to see
Yesterday afternoon I had one of those moments where I fell in love with the internet all over again. I was at work and watched as the second wave of Egypt's revolution began to spread. CNN was going back and forth between coverage from Tahir square and the
I am sitting in an auditorium at WMU's Knauss Hall listening to the beginning of a 13-hour marathon reading of "Virgil's Aeneid." This is great. I feel like I know what it's like for the Romans, or anyone before 1950, to have
Super exciting day: the journalist who broke the story of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation did so because she KNEW LATIN. She was able to send out the news once she heard the announcement read in Latin. I have said (but not on this blog, alas) how Latin is useful