The difference between Matt Gonzalez and me is that Matt isn’t too lazy to document exactly why the Obama thing is such a scam. I just take it for granted, but Matt magnanimously takes on the burden of proof.
Archive for the ‘Ted’ Category
Whine
One’s blog is supposed to be all about whining about the details of one’s personal life, so here you go: I’ve been playing soccer at noon once a week with some of my co-workers, and while a good soccer game is about as much fun as a boring hockey game, that’s still a pretty fair [...]
Portrait
This is a picture of me drawn by Seneca, who is in third grade. I really don’t look this good in real life.
Starr King Elementary School
Here’s the web site for Starr King school that I put together using Wordpress last month. It’s going public this weekend at the school district enrollment fair. It came to a surprisingly small effort, compared with what it used to take to make a decent-looking web site. Wordpress takes care of a whole lot of [...]
Song and dance
Near the elephant farm we met a tour group of women from the Sree Narayana College, which is in Kerala. They were singing and clapping to pass the time. We joined in as best we could.
I got six clips of this before my battery burned out, of which this one is the silliest. You can [...]
Silk
Tonight I went with my colleague Kavitha and her two kids (boy 11, girl 5) to the giant Rasi’s sari shop. Kavitha really knew her way around the fabrics, which helped make my benighted choices a little less benighted, I hope. I dropped somewhat more than I should have but got away with some amazing [...]
High as an elephant’s eye
Last Friday we flew to Bangalore, where a driver was waiting to take us to a resort in the high coffee country at the other end of a 200-mile dirt track. On Saturday we hiked around, saw elephants, sampled the local nightlife. On the way back to Bangalore the following day, we got lost in [...]
When I’m 64
Garrison on Salon.com: “Twenty-four people packed into the dining room for my 64th birthday dinner and made a steady dull roar from the salad course right on through the cake and coffee, and I hardly got a word in edgewise. People kept inquiring if I was having fun, which is irritating. The answer is no. [...]
More pics
On Thursday we took an easy (for some people, maybe, not for me) two-mile hike from Emerald Bay up to Eagle Lake. Here’s that, plus the remainder of the pics I came home with.
(Click the picture to see the rest of them.)
Snipe
With all the nice calls and emails from my sisters and brother on my birthday, you would never guess how fiercely we fought when we were growing up. I like how easily we can talk to each other now, more like old friends than like people whose top preoccupation for ten or 15 years was [...]
Cast the first stone
Hear, hear! “I do not find anywhere in the Bible where it states that PK’s are to be perfect and without sin and yet many people take such a position about children of preachers.” An impassioned defense of the only oppressed minority I can claim membership in, unless you count Norwegian-Americans.
Wisdom
Had my wisdom teeth taken out Friday afternoon, all four of them. I feel like an idiot, letting the dental vultures talk me into this when I’ve made it this long without the slightest trouble. But I happen to have full dental coverage right now, and there’s no way to tell how long that will [...]
Tolerance
CAUCASIAN AMERICANS: BASIC SKILLS WORKBOOK is reviewed on this lively website about Native American literature. It apparently helps children develop empathy for this often-misunderstood ethnic group. There is also this capable assault on that mawkish “Chief Seattle” iconography.