Goodbye 2010. I can’t say I’ll miss you, but I will remember you well. In a year where blogging became an afterthought to work and academia, and in which, to my own horror and disbelief, You Tube became my friend, these are what I consider the best of the lot. …
A Song For a Winter’s Night
Known to many of my generation from Sarah McLachlan’s 2006 album Wintersong, A Song For a Winter’s Night is a Gordon Lightfoot song, first recorded for his 1967 album The Way I Feel. The lamp is burnin’ low upon my table top The snow is softly falling The air is …
You’re A Mean One Mr Grinch.
I possess the significant cowardice that slants one toward agnosticism and away from atheism, but I am not a believer, though I do love the music. I also kind of love Ricky Gervais, but for the life of me I can’t understand why The Wall Street Journal thinks I care …
Total Lunar Eclipse Who’s Up For It
I ask that literally, as a total lunar eclipse on winter solstice is rare, and it’s happening tonight. The eclipse begins 1:33 am EST — Monday, Dec. 20th, at 10:33 pm PST. Totality commences at 02:41 am EST — 11:41 pm PST. It lasts for 72 minutes. NASA science news …
Have Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), Friday
It’s been awhile since I’ve done this, but feel free to play along. This week I read a post at Good that gave me the impression that When The Lights Went out in Massachusetts it was because a drunk or drugged driver hit a utility pole. . I have seen …
Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL
This week was a space in time when colleagues, under the control of others or not, become villains, and I had to rely on my own ingenuity to escape a disaserous fate. You know the kind of week I’m referring to I’m sure. An “Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL” …





