Daydream Believer

There is this pharmacy up the road from our apartment that always has these huge posters in the windows about different products and medications that are on sale or have low prices or whatever.  For the first few months we lived here, there was sign in one window that said, “Despite rumors to the contrary, [...]

There are a few formative moments in a child’s life when their eyes are opened to the possibilities of the world.  In my case, several of these moments were courtesy of Sesame Street.  This video in particular has stayed in my head since I was a toddler, and I was thrilled to find it on [...]

Friends, it was time for a change.  Behold the new theme of the blog.  Revel in its pretty-ness and ease-of-reading.  Observe its tagline, previously not displayed but always intended to be visible.  Ponder the delight of the tree image in this ever-increasingly digitalized world.  Wonder at the magic that is a new blog.
That’s all I [...]

1. Never make a funny face on stage with hundreds of reporters and cameramen nearby.
2. Telling the world you’re “proud” of your veep candidate (cute little maverick that she is) sounds more sexist in the end than any mention of cosmetics being applied to livestock.
3. If you’re a plumber who is broke, you too can [...]

Although it happened a few weeks ago, I’m compelled to post about this, especially given all the crap out there involving politics these days.  No Child Left Inside, a bill designed to serve as a supplement to the No Child Left Behind Act, was recently passed with an overwhelming majority vote by the U.S. House of Representatives.  [...]

I keep trying to think of interesting things to post here lately, and i sure come up with good ideas…but I always come up with them at work.  I don’t feel right about blogging at work – I can validate some of the ways I kill minutes in the office, but not that one.  So, [...]

TechCrunch reports that a new software will be put to the test Thursday night during the Biden/Palin debate.  RealScoop purports to be able to detect whether a candidate is lying or not, simply by taking note of the speaker’s vocal inflections and patterns and performing 1,000 calculations a second to determine whether what is being [...]

I just finished reading Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess, an historic novel about Katherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and first wife of Henry VIII.  This is the third book of Gregory’s that I’ve read; I really enjoy them because I get to enjoy a well written story but I also [...]