Monthly Archives: August 2009

The Friday Thingy

White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase

Humor, Politics

Pool Update

They’re whipping through this pool installation like they’ve done it before.  Monday saw us get the rebar in the morning and the plumbing done in the afternoon.  Today we had the inspector in from the city and he signed off … Continue reading

House & Garden

Jigsaw Man

Harlan Ellison created the short story collection Dangerous Visions in 1967.  Dangerous Visions contained a story by Larry Niven called The Jigsaw Man, a story which stuck with me for years.  In a nut shell, society has decided that convicted … Continue reading

Books

The Pool – Issues and Stuff

It shouldn’t have been that difficult but we finally got the building permits so construction could begin.  But we got them only after agreeing to other changes like lowering the corner of the fence to three feet high, with a … Continue reading

House & Garden

The Friday Thingy

I don’t expect this to change any time soon:

Science, Social, Religion