Hate Relationship

I really love wedding registries but right now I find them stress-inducing.Saturday I have a shower for my cousin's fiancee and I'm freaking out about getting them a gift. I don't have a car in Chicago so getting to Target isn't the most convenient trip around town and I totally spaced (until Tuesday) that her her shower is Saturday and I don't have a gift yet, and likely won't be able to get one

[Composed in our pre-blog days when the twins were two. In light of our recent strep-isode, thought it might be worth a posting... CRL]As my twins and I sat in the “sick” area of our pediatrician’s office awaiting our “Lage, Party of Two?” call to action, I finally confronted the moral dilemma I’ve avoided for the past two months.But first, let me digress…When I attempt to identify t

Thanks Tony! You got Heller right!Screw you Tony! You got Kennedy wrong.Probably the only major decision joined by Justice Kennedy, with which I've disagreed, is Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Generally, I've found Justice Kennedy's decisions to be pretty fair and well-reasoned. But I am not an ardent follower of "strict constructionism," and don't consider Scalia to be my omgzbffefavjusticeeva! lik

It's funny...I looked through my project images, and I think I knew right away that I didn't have an image of a project I'd designed with an over-the-range microwave. I may have used this type of microwave a handful of times, possibly many, in builder projects I've done, but, I've always had a huge bias against them...and I bought one yesterday!Let me just make it simple and do a pros and cons eva

Just linked to tastespotting.com to read a message that looks as though it was written in a hurry on a napkin like a mob hideout ready to be raided! It read: “Thanks for a great 18 months! In light of recent legal complications, NOTCOT will no longer be operating tastespotting.com” -Jean NOTCOT [...]

Blogs are funny that way. They’re a historical log of your thoughts and opinions over time. Except that sometimes, your opinions change, so it’s worth remembering to post updates. So here’s me making an update to a post dating back 6 months called “Someone Please Explain Twitter To Me” to state that i am still [...]

Our love-hate relationship with change is reflected in our tenacious clinging to old beliefs on the one hand and indiscriminately embracing new beliefs on the other. Even when the old beliefs don’t seem to be working, we often resist accepting new ones and even when the old way works just fine, we jump to the [...]

That’s how I feel about the 8 guys working in my basement this week. I love that we’re going to have more usable living space soon but the drywall dust has forced us to shut down our servers and network and I hate not having internet access. Back as soon as I can with reviews of and giveaways for all the cool stuff in my (upstairs) living room! Keep your RSS readers tuned because I’m hoping to be able to get one or two in this week if things go my way.

Things That Fill Me With Abject Self-Loathing Despite Their Relative Insignificance 1) Ending my lectures five minutes early. Every class I taught this week ended at fifteen minutes past the hour instead of the usual twenty past. No matter how often I tell myself that my students are delighted by the reprieve, I cannot help but see those five empty minutes as embarrassing proof of the gaping

The Register, noted UK IT reporters, have fired a shot across Hotmail’s bow by criticising their spam protection techniques. Apparently Hotmail’s spam filtering system does not reach their high standards. With the data they present, it’s clear to see why they feel that way: Hotmail’s “contact list” system allows approved senders to reach Hotmail [...]

 As soon as Charley left the car to enter the big brother house she was awaited with boo’s from the crowd, the viewers perception of her hasn’t really changed much since then either with weekly chants stating “Get Charley out!”, so this leads us to wonder why hasn’t she been evicted already?The fact is that the public haven’t been given the chance to evict her as she hasn’t once been up for nominations until this week…this poses a further question…WHY? Game plan? Many people on the forums and even some of her fellow housemates have noticed her game-plan where it comes to the nominations, it seems as though when Monday comes along Charley is going from person to person complimenting them and just generally spending more time and effort with people so therefor when the nominations take place the housemates don’t necessarily think of Charley as their first choices for nomination. Charley has now openly admitted this to Nikki

Swine! Glorious Swine! I love it, but I know at some point I'm going to have to leave it alone. You can't just eat swine forever. It's just like anything else that brings pleasure: If you overindulge in it, you will end up paying the price at some point. I don't want to be a fat slob, so I know my Quizno's double bacon BLT sandwich eating days are numbered. I just try to lead an active lifestyle

University of Virginia English professor John Sullivan, who also teaches courses in mass media and American culture, is skeptical of Wikipedia. Sullivan compared the encyclopedia to the underlined and highlighted sections of library books that students may flip to instead of reading the entire book. "Are we living in a world where we have intellectual fast food?" he asked.If Thomas Jefferson had a computer, would he have used Wikipedia to research John Locke?Local Virginia academics today have mixed feelings on the 6-year-old online encyclopedia that can be edited by any Web visitor at any time. Some see it as a fresh, more democratic way to collect information that Jefferson would champion, while others are more skeptical of the credibility of an everyman form of academia.Researching Seems 'Alive'"It makes researching and inquiry seem alive when something is always open to discussion," said David A. Golumbia, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia who himself cont

University of Virginia English professor John Sullivan, who also teaches courses in mass media and American culture, is skeptical of Wikipedia. Sullivan compared the encyclopedia to the underlined and highlighted sections of library books that students may flip to instead of reading the entire book. "Are we living in a world where we have intellectual fast food?" he asked.If Thomas Jefferson had a computer, would he have used Wikipedia to research John Locke?Local Virginia academics today have mixed feelings on the 6-year-old online encyclopedia that can be edited by any Web visitor at any time. Some see it as a fresh, more democratic way to collect information that Jefferson would champion, while others are more skeptical of the credibility of an everyman form of academia.Researching Seems 'Alive'"It makes researching and inquiry seem alive when something is always open to discussion," said David A. Golumbia, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia who himself cont

University of Virginia English professor John Sullivan, who also teaches courses in mass media and American culture, is skeptical of Wikipedia. Sullivan compared the encyclopedia to the underlined and highlighted sections of library books that students may flip to instead of reading the entire book. "Are we living in a world where we have intellectual fast food?" he asked.If Thomas Jefferson had a computer, would he have used Wikipedia to research John Locke?Local Virginia academics today have mixed feelings on the 6-year-old online encyclopedia that can be edited by any Web visitor at any time. Some see it as a fresh, more democratic way to collect information that Jefferson would champion, while others are more skeptical of the credibility of an everyman form of academia.Researching Seems 'Alive'"It makes researching and inquiry seem alive when something is always open to discussion," said David A. Golumbia, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia who himself cont

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