Mosty overcast today. Some sun. Our high was 81F.

Another mostly sleepless night, Four hours, I think. This is one of those insomnia attacks. I tell myself it's only my inability to stop mulling over our civilization's impending doom, caught as it is between a rock and a hard place, both intent of demolishing liberty and reason. I tell myself that ( Read more... )

I might be too tired for an entry. This has been one of the most exhausting days of my life. That I am hardly sleeping does not help ( Read more... )

Not too cold here. The sun came out this afternoon. Currently, it's 44˚F.

Today was both the 158th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's great book and the 17th anniversary of my blog.

Football at my mom's in Leeds today. And then we headed home.

Last night, we finished our re-watch of The Wire, all five seasons. It took us less than three ( Read more... )

Currently, it's sunny and 46˚F, with a windchill of 43˚F.

I'm battling a monster of a sinus headache today, but I am determined to at least get this journal entry posted.

Today is not only the 157th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in ( Read more... )

Overcast and only 38˚F. Fitting weather for the beginning of Jethro Tull Season 2016.

Today not only marks the 156th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, it also marks the 15th anniversary of the beginning of my ( Read more... )

Bitter cold last night and today. Currently, we have a windchill warning. At the moment, it's 16˚F and feels like 14˚F. Our low last night was 9˚F, with a windchill of -6˚F. The world is scabbed with ice and snow, and there's more snow forecast for tomorrow.

Yesterday went well, actually. I made it to the Hay, and I made it all the way through ( Read more... )

"[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." ~ Charles Darwin ( Read more... )

Note that I will make a post just after midnight (CaST), probably just a few words, and then this journal will "go black" as a protest against SOPA/PIPA. The blackout will end at midnight (CaST) on the 19th. No, I don't think it will change a thing. The whole internet going black won't change a thing. That's not the point. Sometimes we tilt at ( Read more... )

Choice comments to recent entries. First, regarding the accelerating acceleration of life at the dawn of the Twenty First Century lady_tigerfish writes:

You just can't Tweet Big Thoughts; they take more than 140 characters. I resent any format that demands my thoughts be small.

- and also -

Making the time--for anything--seems to be a thing of the past. ( Read more... )

I better number this one. Well, after I mention an extraordinarily weird dream I had last night involving a secret society of women who were capable of accomplishing mind transference, and so, once a year, traded bodies. And I was being asked to join. But it wasn't this me, it was some other version of me. The the whole affair was far more sinister ( Read more... )