Category Archives: the weekend

To my daughters… Everyone is born with something that they struggle with. You need to fight for your own goals, and not somebody else’s standards. via Why You Should Never, Ever Listen When Someone Says ‘You Weren’t Born To Do … Continue reading →

Megan McArdle – You Can Have My Double Space When You Pry it From My Cold, Dead Hands – The Atlantic. Let me just add: if you’re spending time worrying over whether my emails contain one or two spaces, you … Continue reading →

Althouse: I’m skeptical (yet amused). [UPDATE: It’s real!]. Yeehaw!

  Brandy Clark Enjoying Big Buzz Ahead of CMAs – ABC News.     “I had been passed on a lot,” said Clark, 37, during a recent interview at her management office on Music Row. “I think it’s because I … Continue reading →

Voyager 1: The little spacecraft that could | Technology – KHBS . Hurtling across the Milky Way like an eternal explorer — the Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to nonchalantly reveal the mysteries of the solar system to a captivated Earthbound … Continue reading →

▶ “Africa” by Toto, Performed by the Crew of the Bourbon Peridot, West Africa 2013. – YouTube.

Worth a few minutes of your time!  Man Alone in Las Vegas Airport Kills Time by Lip-Syncing Celine Dion’s “All By Myself” | TIME.

Payback time: First patent troll ordered to pay “extraordinary case” fees | Ars Technica. Patents have a purpose but trolling is not one of them.

Received a LinkedIn notification regarding an engineering friend that got a new job with a new title. He is apparently a “Principle” engineer? If you can’t figure out that you’re actually a Principal engineer, perhaps you shouldn’t be one.

Confirmed: Urine is not sterile | Fox News. Hilt said, when a screening method for kidney infections was developed. It was a simple and easy test that was soon applied to bladder infections, too. But the test involved culturing only … Continue reading →

Survivor Is The Most Morally Contemptible Show On TV. Now, it’s only a dumb TV show, I know. But I do wonder why it can’t be structured to reward virtue on occasion. I wonder why juries of real-life people, when … Continue reading →

Follow the link – ‘Brilliant statement’: Gay conservative’s tweet to Mozilla earns ‘a thousand thumbs up’ | Twitchy.

PJ Lifestyle » 20 Things You Might Not Know About Robert A. Heinlein, Part 1: His Maculate Origin. 3. An incident seen as a child became the core of his personality and his writing. (I knew of this incident before, … Continue reading →

Bo Jackson: Facing the Unknown | SUCCESS. In some instances, Jackson explains, kids are pushed too hard by their parents, which can eventually stunt their progress. But some parents aren’t hands-on enough. “It’s not about sports. It’s all about life … Continue reading →