Facebook has really botched user friendliness, for anyone who wished to search for something in their own timeline. That’s pathetic. It’s bad enough that users don’t really have access to their own timeline data without having a PhD level technical degree in the Facebook graph (and even then, their idea of what data belongs to the user who is the Continue Reading

I have just under 3 and a half months left here at 1801. The building has sold, and I have to find a new place, either my permanent place (the goal since last year at this time) , or another temporary place on the way to finding that “new home”. Covid has certainly been a gigantic monkey wrench in the Continue Reading

I’ve often mused about where we might be in Electric Vehicles if we had started back when the Ecological Crisis was brought to the public attention in a big way. (There WAS an early EV that was produced and leased to people back in the early 90’s, but that effort was “mysteriously” (or, NOT so mysteriously) stopped and literally torn Continue Reading

““Screw COVID. I went to Sturgis,” read one t-shirt from the rally, where overwhelming support for President Trump was the norm. ” https://www.motherjones.com/…/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-is-n… How pathetically stupid, and alarmingly evil. What **I** want is king. How dare you threaten to take that away!

So spot on as to the problem with “identity theology” , which doesn’t bother with the right question. It focuses instead on “correctness” as something one “owns” and others don’t. It’s failure to ask about how our neighbor is affected , and neglected, is what makes it a doorway to hate, which is born out of ignorance of the neighbor’s Continue Reading

Granddaughter Gabriella, born August 21, 2020, 7:40 pm CDT in Murfreesboro, TN, video taken Aug.23 approx 3:30 pm CDT youtu.be/HRGI4rt3qJ4

My son Brian and his little Gabriella, born 7:40 pm CDT, Murfreesboro, TN:(shared just minutes ago by Gabrielle’s mom, Brandy)

Question: Can institutions of *higher learning*, ya know, LEARN? University of Alabama reports more than 500 confirmed COVID-19 cases https://www.al.com/news/2020/08/university-of-alabama-reports-more-than-500-confirmed-covid-19-cases.html

My college days and Facebook friend Toby Roberts made a comment that sent me into a reply that I want to share as a post: Toby: Does the virus not like weddings? Actually, it LOVES weddings. Me: And they are happening, weekend after weekend, all summer, right across the street from me and unavoidably reminding me of the utter senselessness of clinging Continue Reading

I posted yesterday about another wedding about to happen. Well, it did, and it was just like the others: 40-50 people, exhibiting ZERO caution about distancing, or masks, laughing and screaming, singing, indoors for hours, and topping it off with a bride-groom procession between lines of people on both sides, maskless, shoulder to shoulder, out the front door and into Continue Reading