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Regarding Blizzard’s decision to force it’s 8 million users to use their real names in a public forum to get tech support or join in any discussions, Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said in an interview that there would be  no pushback from users, because nobody expected privacy these days anyway. (At the time I write, [...]

I grew up on the Gulf Coast. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on my grandparent’s porch watching the tide move through the sea oats as pelicans swooped down to catch their dinner. Seagulls screaming at tourists, the buzz of a million insects, frogs bwraaaping, lizards scurrying, white heat shimmering from golden sands.
I [...]

Yesterday Boy and I went to the Ft. Worth Science Museum.  Which appears to be a lot cooler than the Dallas one, but holy mother of all that is sciencey, it was ridiculously crowded.  It took two hours to get there because of freeway traffic. We had to park a half a mile a way, [...]

Not too long ago I read Iron Council by China Mieville…which resonated with me in ways I’m still having trouble reconciling. So, when I was sent these images from Russian motorcyclists (at Lost Biker Ru) touring through Northern Siberia, who came across the Lost Railroad, one of Stalin’s Follies; I had to share.

We’ve recently come [...]

I’m about to start baking a doghouse cake (carrot cake with cream cheese icing…which should make decorating all kinds of fun), and make chocolate dog and bone for Igor’s birthday. And like any impossible task, I have to try and get the whole thing done before he gets out of school. I’m apparently [...]