Jim
Take a Break
If you’re an engineer working on a problem and you’re stumped by your technical problem, chugging caffeine at your desk and chaining yourself to your computer, you’re going to be really frustrated. You’re going to waste lots of time. You may look productive, but you’re actually wasting time. Instead, at that moment, you should go [...]
Parenting Advice and Child Safety
Something I’ve learned over the last six months is that people will say some pretty strange things to new parents—even people who have no children of their own—and they really don’t mind getting up in your business to say them. Typically, these nuggets of “wisdom” appear either under the guise of offering unnecessary (and, more [...]
HSUS Misrepresents Agriculture (Of Course)
You may have recently heard that McDonald’s and other fast-food restaurants will soon be requiring their pork supplies to phase out the use of gestation stalls in their operations. This is a result of pressure from the HSUS’s attempts to bully the agricultural community into submission. What the HSUS can’t accomplish through direct government intervention [...]
First 2012 Snowfall
These are a handful of pictures I took with my iPhone the other day, after a couple of inches of snow fell here in Indiana.
Hornets vs. Honeybees
As a beekeeper this kind of wholesale slaughter just makes me feel sick. It’s amazing to me how much damage just a few hornets can do to a hive in just a few hours. I can’t imagine what it would be like to come out one day to check your hive and find it completely [...]
How Protect IP and SOPA Will Break the Internet
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, [...]
What’s In a Brand Name?
I just bought a new winter coat. I’ve needed one for a while, as I’ve pretty much worn all my others to rags. Hazards of farm living, I think—everything gets worn out for farm work eventually. The coat I bought doubles as a farm coat and an office coat. When funds are spare, you quickly [...]
Google+
Here’s the thing: I really want to like Google+, especially since Facebook insists on taking a crap all over its users when it comes to privacy and security. The trouble I’m having with Google+ right now, though, is the fact that its API is still only read-only. Now, it could be that Google really wants [...]
OWS Makes a Point — and It’s Not Necesarily the One You Think
It’s strange. The longer the Occupy movement goes on, the more we hear about police brutality, use of excessive force, and other acts of violence perpetuated, not by the protesters themselves, but by the various authority figures of the cities where these protests are being held. What’s worse is that it seems like almost no [...]
Cartographer
A little over a year ago, three authors on Ficly completed a collaborative short story that took about six months to complete. For those not familiar, Ficly is a flash fiction site where all stories must be 1000 characters or fewer. Any story may be sequeled or prequeled as often as there are ideas to [...]
