I was trying to fly to Denver. I was in the A Terminal of the airport, with my briefcase and suitcase. My flight was departing from the C Terminal. But each terminal building was arranged in a complicated, maze-like fashion, so I had a very difficult time finding the door to get [...]

There was an advertisement on TV about General Motors entering the pharmaceutical industry. They made a big point of how there were synergies between the car and drug businesses. For instance, they could save hundreds of millions of dollars on studies by using crash test dummies as test subjects rather than humans. [...]

I went to work at a friend’s company. He was showing off an exotic breed of dog he’d brought back from China. The dog’s nails contained some chemical that reacted vigorously with metals.
Later we went out to a restaurant with a few coworkers, and at the table he demonstrated a battery he’d developed [...]

Now even the director of the Vatican Observatory has stated that
“Intelligent Design” is not science, and that if it is taught in schools, it should be in religion classes, not science classes.
If even the Vatican can recognize the difference between science and religion, why can’t the Kansas State Board of Education?

Bruce Perens describes how Richard Stallman, a speaker at the UN World Summit on the Information Society, got hassled by UN security for wrapping his RFID badge in aluminum foil.

I’ve never gotten a flu shot before, and I probably wouldn’t have this year, but my employer arranged for a nurse to give the shots to employees on-site. I figured I might as well give it a try.
One of my coworkers is a bit squeamish about shots, and he was immediately after me in [...]

When I was in the second grade or thereabouts, the teacher read us “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl in installments after lunch. I loved the book, and was delighted by the first film adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. I’ve read the book [...]

Senko’s Blog: The Missing Piece describes a “Desktop Cleanup Wizard” for GNOME.

Perhaps next we can have a “Disk Cleanup Wizard”:

There are unused files on your disk. The Disk Cleanup Wizard can help you clean up your disk. Click this balloon to start the wizard and remove all the extraneous files.

Of course, the Wizard’s [...]

I was in high school, and one of the other students was really pissed off at me for no obvious reason. He kept attacking me, but every time we fought, he was the one that got injured. And I kept getting in trouble for it. I was trying to hide from him, [...]

I went to the grocery store with my grandmother Dorothy. I don’t remember too much about that, other than that there was a special on shrimp, so I bought five pounds.
Later I was riding around on a Segway. I took a shortcut through a building in a medical center. As I passed [...]