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It has been twenty-eight months since Adrienne’s hysterectomy. Last year I made a request to our friends to help us celebrate our post-infertility life. August 11th is this week and we still don’t have a name for I-had-my-uterus-and-ovaries-taken-at-32-so-I-will-never-have-children-of-my-own day (someone call Hallmark). At any rate, here’s what we are going to do on Thursday. Celebrate [...]
Duh. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code is not a comedic document yet I laughed aloud after reading Subchapter C Section 102.51. It goes something like this: SUBCHAPTER C. TERRITORIAL LIMITS ON SALE OF BEER Sec. 102.51. SETTING OF TERRITORIAL LIMITS. (a) Each holder of a manufacturer’s or nonresident manufacturer’s license shall designate territorial limits in [...]
People are beginning to ask about our year-end podcast. I’m sad to say it isn’t done yet, but we should have it up around the first week of 2011.
At first I was going to detail how to make a friend list, put people in it and edit your privacy settings all in that little box. Instead you get a blog post with pretty images. An Allegory LinkedIn is the “social network” for your co-workers. I keep track of a lot of people there. [...]
This morning I heard a story about a large corporation and a judiciary both acting in favor of privacy over taxes. It warmed my cockles. As the recession continues states look for ways to fix budget shortfalls. Raising or enacting taxes is politically incendiary in an election year but one state saw a way to [...]
The state of the art Like many homebrew beer makers I also roast coffee. It’s quick and simple to produce better java than you can buy in most shops. While not a natural pairing, beer and coffee go together. There’s coffee porter, coffee stout, ..uh… espresso porter…. I like to do things differently. I thought [...]
It has been sixteen months since Adrienne had a hysterectomy. Saying “we’ve been through a lot” is meaningless truth. Adie and I will never be parents. Ultimately the decision was ours, heavily influenced by cold biological facts. This blog is small catharsis, but its material is not for those with a weak emotional constitution. We [...]
Just a quick homebrew update. My three-tier stand is great, but I kept melting hoses when they would touch the hot metal. Luckily none ever burst and spewed hot wort all over, but I knew that was just a matter of time. So a friend and I got out the torches and hard-plumbed the stand. [...]
Continuing my series on Mission Control Desktop, this post covers some enhancements I made for configuring email accounts in Thunderbird. The mail.* branch is one of the largest group of preferences you can manipulate using autoconfig. Setting up the right combination of mail.account, mail.server, mail.identity and mail.smtpserver is just a little tricky. With the exception [...]
