Author: eric

Georgia’s Schools Superintendent, Republican Kathy Cox, makes a strong case for homeschooling our future child by striking evolution from the curriculum for both middle and high schools. Do you grow poppies in your garden? That’s a crime, you know, no matter what the seed packets or your local extention agent or sheriff says. And just… Continue reading A sudden outburst after the silence

“Snackster.net is a powerful cookbook program that redefines how people will get their recipes. Snackster.net is the world’s best peer to peer recipe sharing program. Unlike other popular file sharing networks Snackster.net is dedicated to only cooking.” “The SWIPE Toolkit is a collection of web-based tools that sheds light on personal data collection and usage… Continue reading More catch-up

As the phone photos suggest, we went up to Missouri a week and a half ago for my sister A’s wedding. While there we both managed to pick up the nasty flu that is going around. A word to the wise – avoid that stuff like, well, the plague. We each had a 102 fever… Continue reading Back from the Dead

Here comes another year, and it looks like this one might be the most event-filled yet. As a brief cryptic comment posted from the cameraphone last week announced, my wife and I are expecting our first child, due in very early August. We’ve been looking for a care provider for us who can help us… Continue reading Happy New Year

“Needs Work” This week’s Photo Friday topic is work. This old Chinese junk resides under a canopy in the parking lot behind the small building where I work. It appears that it’s been there a while, and it needs a bit of fixing-up before it could take to the seas again. It’s been boxed in… Continue reading Needs Work

I’m posting this entry using my new cell phone (assuming I keep it). So far, I like it. It’s a Sony Ericsson T616 that runs Java and has a camera. It looks like it can do most of what my handspring could do, and better, too. My new number is 706-248-1860 and email sent to… Continue reading Posting on the go…

Allen’s, a long-standing Athens fixture and hangout for “the Dead Beat Club”, is closing its doors.

Dead beloved bug got you down? Provide a dignified service with the Dead Bug Funeral Kit.

But for the hand of fate and a veering right instead of left, I very nearly became a statistic yesterday. Mistress Panther witnessed the aftermath.

By 2am last night, I’d almost gotten us to Memphis, but then I got sleepy. But Chris was just waking up so we switched places and here it is 8:15am (local time) and we’ve just passed through Oklahoma City. The only item of note thus far is I’va actually been able to connect to the… Continue reading Oklahoma is OK