Perfection

When I was a teenager I made a goal to someday be perfect. I figured it was in my range of ability — I just had to work hard at it.
I began my training in perfection with my mother’s high school yearbooks. In the mid-20th century seniors could list their pet peeves under their [...]

Indian Summer

It’s Indian Summer here in the DC area. How do I know? I know because we had a frost and now the weather’s turned warm again. That’s my definition of Indian Summer. Other people have different definitions, but I’m sticking to mine.
When I lived in Illinois, the sure sign that winter was coming was the [...]

What if my House Used Twitter’s API?

Do you know what an API is? Me neither, but it has something to do with the inner workings of web applications like Twitter, LibraryThing, GoodReads, Facebook etc. When web application developers let their API’s into the wild strange things can happen.
For instance. I’m on Twitter. I’m also on GoodReads. I clicked a button on [...]

Things that go bump in the night.

Years ago when I was enamored with Stephen King’s novels I read in an interview that the only book of his that scared him when he was writing it was Pet Sematary. I found that a little hard to believe. I didn’t think that someone could write something that scared them any more than [...]

In for the what?

What’s that saying: In for the something out for the something else? Oh – In for the penny out for the pound? In for the penny in for the pound? That’s gotta be it!
Whatever it is, it is what I thought about when I chose to write this post right now instead of work on [...]