When Rita was in intensive care there was a moment where it seemed like it was all over and her mother told me to go find the priest. I went down to the chapel and there was an old, old … Continue reading →

Sitting in those pews transports me back through my memories and even further back into the memories of so many centuries past. Continue reading →

Inside every old person is a young person who doesn’t really understand that he’s old now. Continue reading →

It’s an awful song. I mean, it starts off well enough. Happy birthday to you. It gets straight to the point and you know what the song is going to be about right there in the first couple of words. … Continue reading →

PJ O’Rourke has cancer. And he laughs in its face. I looked death in the face. All right, I didn’t. I glimpsed him in a crowd. I’ve been diagnosed with cancer, of a very treatable kind. I’m told I have … Continue reading →

So. Farewell then Agitar Software (formerly known as TestAgility). We sent you code. You sent back tests. Free. You helped us find crappy code. Now we have to find it for ourselves. Shame it’s so easy. Here! I found some! … Continue reading →

According to an NYT editorial, The rate of firearm death for children 14 years and under is almost 12 times higher in this country than in 25 other industrialized nations combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Continue reading →

Jeff reminded me to be careful when we book our funereal silent clowns in case we get mimes by mistake. That would suck. Fortunately, these people are on the case.

A little while ago, Jeff and I attended a funeral because Julio reminded us that you should always go to the funeral and on the way back we talked about how the one thing religions really do well is funerals … Continue reading →