I love mind-expanding books

And mind-expanding people who make their interesting insights free online, like Bob Garfield’s ‘The Chaos Scenario’: Got Adobe Acrobat Reader? Read on, at his Website, with free readable chapters: www.thechaosscenario.net/

I’ve blown a hole in my keyboard

No. Seriously.
In the spacebar of the wireless keyboard of my not-quite-4-year-old HP Media Center PC.
I don’t pound on it THAT hard. But I must pound it enough – or it’s got some pretty cheap plastic.
Deb had a spare HP wireless keyboard, but it must be a different frequency, as it wouldn’t connect with my receiver. [...]

Only the good die young

OK, so it’s a great Billy Joel song. It fits as well as anything for this little piece.
I doubt highly regarded cyclist/triathlete/mtn. biker Steve Larsen, who died this week at age 39, and Navy rescue swimmer and Marshall (skip the smirks) HS graduate Aaron Clingman, who died this week at age 25, ever crossed paths [...]

Being an assignment editor is… challenging

And thanks to a Facebook friend, I’ve found a lady in Denver, Colorado, Misty J., who writes a wonderful, fascinating blog about what the joys and tears and challenges of what this job is like – as well about Twitter, which KTVZ now has a feed on (we also have a new Facebook page! Come check [...]

Facebook, the P-I and change

Tuesday, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer joins the Rocky Mountain News in the great Newspapers of the Past dustbin, except… online.
I used to deliver the Seattle Times (PM paper, only thing that worked with school) and the Kent News-Journal, in Kent, Wash. (Boy did people try to avoid paying their bills. Some things never change.)
Anyway, I’m not [...]

Doctor my eyes (the Hallelujah Chorus)

OK, real-life drama is always the most interesting.
Here’s mine.
Around 12:30 yesterday, in the newsroom of course, no more stress than normal, I thought I’d looked out our nice new windows at a sun reflection or something.
Why elese would I be seeing spots?
But soon, they morphed into some pulsing designs of various trapezoidal traiangular stuff along [...]

Feed the faith. Fight the fear.

We need to focus on the positive about our economy. Because the fear factor is as big an enemy to recovery as any disagreement about the path.
Not Polyanna, just a counteract to the gloom and doom that’s eating up our future.
Whatcha think?
UPDATE: Quick Google search found this: http://www.goodnewseconomist.com/ - exactly what I’m talking about. Hope to [...]

Abuse of anonymity and an attempt at a solution

 
I think I’ve written no phrase more in recent months on our Website, unfortunately, than “abuse of anonymity.”
 
Privacy is something to be cherished, and many anonymous parties have been great contributors to our comments.
 
But anonymity abused is nothing but grief, except for the chucklehead behind the keyboard. And so, we change our online comment experiment, [...]

20th post, new venue

I’ve made it to ORblogs! It’s a fun place to visit to see what folks are blogging about all over the Beaver State (what a nickname;-)
I’m on ’stay-cation,’ but I do figure to try out Opera 9.5, released last week, and Firefox 3.0, due out Tuesday. And if we have more fires, whoa nelly, all bets [...]

Pandora is one music box worth opening

Not sure why they took a bad-luck name – there’s a story there, but Pandora is one fun, free, simple and non-intrusive music player.
A product of the Music Genome Project, you tell it what artists you like, it finds similar ones and creates “stations,” much like Slacker and others of its ilk. But it’s a [...]