Brain Calcification

The iPad's arrival has me revisiting a pet hypothesis: that brains calcify to new ideas past a certain age. Which brings me, inevitably, to the iHaters. Why does it bother them so much that some people found a thing they like?

Fidelity

Fidelity in relationships matters, so I've committed to not looking at another iPad before mine arrives. Here's to testing the limits of human will power. Maybe I'll just look at a picture of one. That's not cheating, is it?

I love warm

It's finally warm. I nearly sweated through my afternoon walk, and now I can leave the windows open day and night. It makes the whole working-from-home thing more enjoyable, the fresh air and the lack of fluorescent light both.

Commuting

I've done such a good job avoiding rush hour that I only just hit my first metered freeway on-ramp. Drivers clump together like cholesterol in arteries and settle to the speed of the slowest one. If I could drive every car, would we even have a rush hour?

Increased Debt

Ten minutes!

Snow

What's the deal with all the snow? I thought we, as a planet, had decided we were done with cold weather. And I was on board with this plan. Stupid snow.

Flash

Flash is dead to me. And thanks to dedicated developers, Flash can be dead to you too, with the help of Click2Flash. If you use Safari. I'm sure there's help for Firefox as well.

Of Gum, Skating and Nuclear Power Plants

How does anyone convince themselves it's acceptable to spit gum into a drinking fountain? Speed skating, meanwhile, is the coolest-looking Olympic sport, with all the appeal of Nascar. And Georgia is getting two nuclear plants, a comfortable 150 miles away.

Ecuador Pictures

Ecuador pictures are here.

Guns and Cats

I finally tested my new Beretta 90two, and it was everything I'd hoped, even at a hundred yards. I spent the first half hour at Chestnut Mountain imitating a broken record about keeping the gun pointed down range. Next on the list: a suppressor.