I haven’t written about politics since shortly after last year’s presidential election, but it is certainly not because I haven’t been thinking about it or reading about it. With the Texas legislature recently taking steps to ban gay marriage, gay foster parents, and pretty much gay people altogether, our mostly conservative representatives are clearly attempting [...]
Like most kids who grew up in the 80’s, I broke my fair share of Atari joysticks before moving over to the original Nintendo and spending hours with my buddy Mario. I never bought a Nintendo beyond the Super version (SNES), but I still have both systems in a big Rubbermaid container in the [...]
“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” - Tom Wilson
I’m willing to believe that my attraction to low rated television shows is somehow due to a force of nature that I’m not yet aware of. Otherwise, it’s difficult to explain why most of the shows I’ve watched over the years have been low rated, cult classics that were often cancelled well before completing [...]
This entry is part of “The House Files”, a series of articles detailing the phases of construction on our new home.
Before we started researching homes last year, I hadn’t put much thought into the process of building a house. For example, it never really occurred to me that most home features were selected as [...]
I know it’s probably a black mark on my Texas citizenship, but I’ve never managed to kill any large horned animals. Things might have turned out differently had my father not passed away when I was a child, but there were other members of my family that hunted, and they didn’t take me along [...]
First, let me offer the standard disclaimer. This clearly isn’t a design site, and I’m not claiming to know enough about design to offer an educated opinion. I’m just tossing out a few thoughts, and you can either agree that they are valid points, or just ignore them and go back to thinking [...]