Territorial Bloggings
A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
Percival Lowell & David Strauss
Go read The Man Who Invented Mars.
I blog about this for two simple reasons: First, out of respect for Professor David Strauss. I took a class (American History II) from him at Kalamazoo College back in (IIRC) Spring Quarter 1989. He wasn’t my advisor as a History major (my guy was Dr. David Barclay), [...]
Technology, Education, Society, & Change
Go read this article. Really. Click the link & go read it.
I’ve read Cringely for a long time, before and after he left Infoworld, where he assumed the mantle of their industry gossip column, and took it to great heights. His book Accidental Empires is a wonderful read about the growth & emergence of the [...]
March 13 - Today in History: Bigsis!
Happy Birthday, sweetie!
You are the best big sister that a bratty/beautiful/bodacious baby brother could ever have. I don’t deserve you, but I’m glad I have you. Thank you for setting such a great example, for setting the bar high, for always being there, for loving me, and for being such a great friend.
You, in a [...]
History vs. Nostalgia
In the interest of having a non-AI posting, here are some not-quite-random musings based on something that occurred to me recently…
In the course of cleaning my office area in a sub-basement of the palatial Schloß T.B., I realized that I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff. One might even say, you know, crap. And it [...]


