After losing nearly an entire evening’s worth of work, I had to take a few steps back from my computer to resist continuing the verbal assault on the air above my head. Property damage could have ensued as well.
A PBS program rescued my mental well-being, despite keeping me up until 3 a.m. The venerable [...]
Dover, Penn. debate over Darwin
Violent, fat, unattractive, but not all that lazy.
It has become increasingly depressing, as a native of Philadelphia, every time a statistical study of metropolitan areas is released. Philly consistently is granted some of the most undesirable honors imaginable. According to Men’s Fitness magazine in 2005, Philly was the second fattest city in the country. Travel and Leisure magazine and CNN Headline News [...]
Better late than never.
I hate to misrepresent my cat Emma this way, and perpetuate the stereotypes of black cats. She’s actually quite the antithesis of the stereotypes.
Emma just happened to be right there as I turned around with my camera in hand, as if posing and inquiring when she gets to be the center of attention instead of [...]
Spreading the word.
I was checking my Google Analytics today and I noticed someone had stumbled onto my blog from the site Technorati.com. I’m not a huge blog reader myself, so I’m not up on every tool, business, etc. inhabiting the blogoshpere. I had never heard of Technorati. If you go to the Technorati site you’ll see a [...]

