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Moving to Blogger, for real this time
I’m done with WordPress. After being compromised, again, I’m done. No matter what security extension I install, no matter how automatic the updates, no matter what I tweak, WordPress continues to be compromised. I even went so far as to nuke the install, the database, and the users for both with my host only to […]
Student Loans – Fin
Yesterday I paid off my last student loan. It took nearly 16 years to do so, a stretch of time that, frankly, is embarrassing. I financed my college education completely on my own; my parents held to the belief (in the mid-90s) that one could still pay their way through college. You couldn’t, there wasn’t […]
Snow Removal in Chelsea, MI
Chelsea MI’s relevant ordinances regarding removal of snow and ice. Sec. 26-89. – Ice and snow removal. It shall be the duty of the owner or occupant of every parcel of real estate within the city which adjoins a public right-of-way upon which there has been constructed a public sidewalk, to remove any accumulations of […]
Myrt Hulst – 1929 – 2104
I’m getting sick of writing these. On January 19, 2014, Myrtle Hulst passed from this Earth. She was 84, 4 months short of her birthday. She is survived by 2 sisters and countless nieces, nephews, grand nieces, grand nephews, and friends. I am one of those grand nephews and Myrt was like a third grandmother […]
The Captain Kirk Problem: How Doctor Who Betrayed Matt Smith
Lots of good pulls in this Atlantic article, but some highlights: The entirety of Season Six is when Moffat’s fascination for plot twists and open-ended mysteries (in our house, we describe this unfortunate tendency as “plotty-wotty”) took over the show, and the whole product suffered. … As Moffat checked off the boxes, … all I […]
The struggle of an indexed life
I live online. That’s a statement means different things to different people. To people before my generation, that may mean I’ve made a choice disconnect from “real life” and spend it staring at a series of LCD screens. To those within my generation (or neighboring it), it may mean that I’ve adopted the position that […]
Why I Quit Watching The Walking Dead
I was a big fan until this season. And then, after the second episode, I just gave up. I think the inherit conflict in the show’s structure finally got to me. It’s not that the show doesn’t give fans what they want; everyone wants something different that can’t be met. But what is central to […]
Windows 8 Sound Randomly Drops Out (Solution)
You, like me, have a Windows 8 machine which has the sounds randomly drop out. Your drivers look fine, everything is up to date, but this annoying thing keeps happening. Fear not, there is a solution, courtesy of Tech Support Forum. For Windows 8, search for and open Sound, click the Communications tab, select “Do […]
A Breakdown of Guns and Ammo's Response to a Reasonable Editorial
Recently, a [former] editor at Guns and Ammo published what most rational citizens would consider a measured and logical approach to gun control. For that, he was fired, disowned, and earned an official response from the remaining editorial staff. Below is that response, editorialized by me, a current non-crazy gun person (which apparently is now […]