Rugby World Cup 1st weekend
While I, like most Americans, am excited about the NFL season (especially with the hometown Houston Texans looking like a team to cheer for for a change!), I am more enthralled with watching the...
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I’m holding up my end of the bargain
Happy birthday, gorgeous. More beautiful on the inside and out with every passing day. You keep getting better looking, and, as we agreed 19 years ago, I don’t…. Related posts: No related posts.
From 6502 assembly language to Blackberry java programming
You know you are a true geek (and a nostalgic one at that!) when you still have your copy of 6502 Assembly Language Programming by Lance A. Leventhal (published 1979). I do not program...
book signing October 20 at Trinity University Alumni week
Last year I was invited to be a part of the Trinity University Alumni Book Signing that occurs during alumni week. I have been invited back again this year; the event is October 20...
bookrev: Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell
Entertaining and thought-provoking…all between the same two covers! Reader’s read with many motivations. Sometimes you read for entertainment, for the plot; sometimes to be intellectually stimulated (big words), for the ideas. When I want...
I should be able to run a 5K, shouldn’t I???
My industrious wife formed a team to walk in the Komen Race for the Cure in Houston October 6. The team name is “Komen Get It”….catchy, eh? Somehow (as usually happens) I got talked...
bookrev: Here, There & Everywhere by Chris Roberson
Enjoyable trips through history, the multi-verse and a woman’s mind After reading several history and general fiction books (mostly due to commitments to read ARCs), I was desperate to get back to the escapism...
Ice Road Truckers – The Final Episode
I’m not sure what it was about this short (10 episode) series that entertained my family. It could have been any combination of: a locale, the Northwest Territories, that most of us have never...
Wiki-washers and grave-Digg-ers
By day, I masquerade as someone who knows a thing or two about digital security and identity. So when my friend and collegue Charles mentioned wikiscanner to me, my split personality showed: one side...