An essay about growing up with music and getting older. [read more…]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_monster A pretty funny, but sadly true, look at email. Does email control you or do you control email? [read more…]

This post was written in January 2012 after Rainier died. See this post for his last day. Rainier, April 1999 – January 2012 Dear Family & Friends, It is with a sad heart that I tell you that Rainier passed away last night. The vet believes [read more…]

The below was written after Rainier died. Not very coherent or complete. The whole event happened in one evening. See this post for more about Rainier. We were heading out of town for the weekend so we dropped off Rainier at some good friend’s house. They have a couple of dogs that Rainier likes playing… [read more…]

Long Read. Amazing recap of what happened to our financial systems on 9/11/2001. Or rather what didn’t happen: it didn’t break. http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Astonishing-Story-of-the-Federal-Reserve-on-9-11# [read more…]