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Jason reminded me about the Geek Code; that really takes me back. Those were the days when nearly everyone on the net could do a little programming, people waited until the low-usage late-night hours to access servers overseas, and Internet polls for president gave the majority vote to whoever promised the smallest government. [...]

It’s time to use the awesome marketing power of my blog to plug one of my other web sites: FreeBSD Ports Review.  This is an idea I came up with over a year ago, but it’s been percolating around in my head for a while, and I finally decided how I wanted to do it.  [...]

I wanted to blog regularly about our garden this year, with pictures and updates on how things were growing, what we were planting or harvesting each week, and so on. Clearly this did not happen. Oh well, something to do better on next year. I thought I’d write up a little recap, [...]

Recently I’ve tried watching a few new shows in what I think of as the X-Files genre, like Heroes and Eureka.  Science fiction mixed with supernatural and some mystery; what’s not to like?  I just can’t seem to take them seriously enough to stick with them, though.  They seem to be trying way too hard [...]

Blogging is a strange avocation, when you think about it.  Unless you’re already famous, when you start a blog, no one will be reading it.  But you’re hoping people will, otherwise you could save yourself the trouble of setting it up online and just keep a diary.  I suspect most bloggers hope to eventually make [...]

Thought I’d write a little about how the first Masses went at St. Rose yesterday.  First, a few clerical details.  The Sunday High Mass has been moved to 11:00am, not 10:00am as I posted earlier.  That’s to make it easier for people coming long distances to get here in time.  Apparently we have people coming [...]

There was a dinner tonight at St. Rose, for all the people who have helped with their time and contributions to reopen the church and bring the Latin Mass to Quincy.  It looked like close to 200 people came, so it was great to see so much support for what’s happening there.  I even saw [...]

….for every time I stood in line behind some #^$%@ buying a lottery ticket….  Thank God for pay-at-the-pump.
Recently I wrote that lotteries are a tax on the innumerate (clueless at math), which may have insulted some people, so I thought I’d explain.  While many lottery players are spending money they really can’t afford, I know [...]

Jason’s been trying to track down Baughers we might be related to, and he found Danny Baugher, recently released by the Patriots and promptly arrested for beating up his dad.  If we invite him to the reunion, we should probably make sure no one brings beer.

(On conservative forums this morning, there’s the usual doom-and-gloom, we’re-so-screwed hand-wringing going on, just as there was on the Left after the last two elections.  Bush didn’t crown himself King, suspend elections, and poison his enemies with arsenic, and Obama probably won’t either.  This is my response to one of the more hysterical ones.)
I think [...]