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My mother received a death threat last night. A real, bonafide death threat. Someone called her on her cellphone and left a clear, unequivocal death threat. Her phone didn’t list the number. It simply said “Unknown Caller”. She didn’t recognize the voice of the caller, and she didn’t know what to do.
She forwarded the voicemail [...]
It’s my grandfather’s birthday today. He died just a couple of weeks ago after a painful struggle with mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure.
He’d been coughing for a few years. It was a persistent cough, but it wasn’t a severe cough. He coughed here and there, and especially after he came into [...]
I’ve been experiencing first-hand the following products and services lately, and I thought you might want to be spared the headaches they’ve given me and my family.
Macy’s furniture delivery service
If you like getting used/opened furniture that might have sat in someone else’s house and then got returned, or if you like waiting entire months to [...]
I know Christmas isn’t celebrated by everyone, but if you’re one of those who does celebrate it, Merry Christmas! Even though the origins of the date are pagan, the meaning we have chosen to ascribe to it over time is certainly worth celebrating. For those among us who are Christians, it means our Savior’s birth. [...]
» Go to this postI thought that when I lived in Florida, the construction there was shoddy. I was wrong. At least there they used concrete pillars and floors for the houses, and the building code was so strict everything was anchored properly, especially after Hurricane Andrew. When I moved to the DC area, I thought construction would be [...]
» Go to this postYou may recall that I mentioned a recent trip to Romania in a few of my posts. The occasion for our trip was a joyous one, thank goodness: my wife’s sister got married. I would have loved to post a few photos of them, but she and her husband would prefer to stay off the [...]
» Go to this postWindows Family Safety (WFS) is a new offering from Microsoft that aims to offer protection from questionable or indecent websites to families or individuals. I tried it out for a couple of weeks, and found it to work fairly well, except for a few hiccups here and there.
It is a software-based internet filtering mechanism. The [...]
My grandparents on my mother’s side always had a garden, no matter where they lived. They were city folk, and even when they lived in an apartment, they managed a nice little plot of land in the back of building, where they grew fruits and vegetables. Later, they moved in a house with a big [...]
» Go to this postThe IHT carries an opinions piece from the NYT today on Romania’s orphanages. The gist is that conditions are still deplorable. The problem is that once Communism ended, the big, mega-orphanages were closed down, and the children were distributed to smaller orphanages, who have to battle with pauper’s budgets, which means limited staff and even [...]
» Go to this postSome scientists are patting themselves on the back after publishing the results of their study, which indicated that the killings that took place in the British royal line followed patterns consistent with Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest. Quoting:
“It also suggests that human behavior, even family murders, can be consistent with patterns of [...]
This is funny, but in a very sad and surreal sort of way. The RIAA has now filed suit against a family that doesn’t even own a computer. (!) They maintain the family shared songs illegally online, and they even published a list of those songs. I have to wonder how they shared the songs… [...]
» Go to this postUnbelievable! How low can these people sink? Suing a minor?! Here’s the link, an excerpt is enclosed below:
From Boing Boing: “Cory Doctorow: A judge in Michigan has thrown out a case where the RIAA attempted to sue a small child for file-sharing, after failing in its attempt to prosecute the child’s mother. The recording industry [...]
