At the beginning of the year, Fr. Roderick Vonhögen of SQPN in his podcast “Geekpriest” recommended a new ebook he’d picked up on Amazon called “Wearing the Cape - The Beginning”. It was a free Kindle book that gave the... [Continue Reading]
On Saturday we went to the penultimate week of our local farmer’s market and I picked up some mussels from the fishmonger who gives the kids lollipops every week. When we got home I turned to my favored preparation for the shellfish that come from... [Continue Reading]
Earlier this year I moved my blog from the content management system Expression Engine (the older 1.x, not the newer 2.x version) to WordPress. I had been planning to do the same for Melanie’s blog this summer but didn’t get around to it... [Continue Reading]
I’d been anticipating the release of Apple’s iPad 2 for months, even before they’d officially announced it. I’d see the launch of the first iPad last year and I’d even got to use some that belonged to others briefly and... [Continue Reading]
Verizon has just started offering their FiOS service in our town. We’ve been Comcast customers for a long time and have had an adequate experience, if not a great one: While we’ve had a handful of problems over the years, their service... [Continue Reading]
They say Eskimos/Inuit have many different words for snow because it’s such a part of their lives. New Englanders have many different words for snow too, and not all of them are four letters. The fact is that growing up in any of the snowy... [Continue Reading]
I’m on vacation this week, or as they call it these days “staycation” because we aren’t going anywhere special, and on Monday because of the rain, I proposed a family outing to Bass Pro Shop. I didn’t intend to buy... [Continue Reading]
I have a sneaking suspicion that this story is some kind of PR stunt or flash mob gag. It just beggars belief. A group of yahoos protested outside the National Spelling Bee last week, demonstrating against standardized spelling. They say that we... [Continue Reading]
The Motorola Motonav TN555 is a very, very nice GPS with few negatives. First, all the standards are here: voice prompting with street names and landmarks, a rich points-of-interest database, easy entry of new navigation points, Bluetooth... [Continue Reading]
Ever since my bachelor days I’ve been a fan of Indian curries made at home for dinner. Back then, it was not unknown for me to eat tikka masala, vindaloo, or korma four or five times a week. I’d picked up the habit after a series of... [Continue Reading]