Tough Times

I read the news today, oh boy. It just gets worse and worse. I’ve been a bit farklempt thinking of and reading about the very personal impact this war is having on lives … Read more

It’s Even Worse Than it Appears

See anything biased about the image below? (It’s from an early May edition of US News and World Report.) Think about it a minute, and see if you can find 3 points of … Read more

Comet Bradfield

I thought this beautiful picture of comet Bradfield deserved a wider viewing. It is one of 3 comets visible to the naked eye during April and May of 2004; a fairly unusual occurence. … Read more

Liteon DVD & Dantz Retrospect

I got a new dvd-writer to replace one that had died. The Liteon 812s was only 105$ and features the latest technologies: 8X DVD +/- R/RW. It now works great on my XP … Read more

All Good Things

All Good Things is a fragment of a lyric from the Jerry Garcia song, Run for the Roses, and now it is the name of a spectacular new 6 CD box set featuring … Read more

23rd Post

This is a riff on the 23rd page meme that passed through the blogosphere last week. 1. Go into your blog’s archives. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3. Find the … Read more

About All the Pages

Ever since Ken referred to me as Mike NLI (no last initial), I’ve been aware that this site needed an About page. And so, now it has one: About All the Pages. It’s … Read more