Month: November 2005

Last night, The Wife and two of our friends and I went to see the Knoxville Ice Bears take on the Huntsville Havoc. Minor-league hockey is Big Fun. There’s all sorts of stuff going on — from the guys racing… Continue Reading →

Autumn in Tennessee moves through three phases: early, peak, and decline. In the early phase, the evenings start to cool and the weather dries out. In the peak phase, the leaves turn brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows. In the decline,… Continue Reading →

NASA seems to have finally worked out its Javascript issues. Now, once again, you can track the location of the International Space Station in real time.

Why do I care about school board election results from Dover, Pennsylvania? Because this is the school board that implemented mandatory teaching of intelligent design — with little or no thought except to ideology. Yesterday, voters in this small town… Continue Reading →

As some of you Loyal Readers know, I teach undergraduate-level law classes online through the University of Phoenix. The extra money is nice and it’s usually fun to do. After a while, it gets repetitious and almost mindless; I’ve given… Continue Reading →

Green Bay is in some serious bad shape this season. We’re tied for the basement of the NFL with the Houston Texans. A 1-7 start is well into Lindy Infante-Don Majkowski territory. Even if we run the table, we’re still… Continue Reading →

So now that I’ve got management responsibilities, one of the first big issues I need to confront is that the lease on our office expires at the end of January. Our current office, in my opinion, sucks ass, so I’d… Continue Reading →

Today was a day of two doctor depositions in Kingsport. Kingsport is only a few miles from the border of Virginia and Tennessee. Total round-trip mileage: 264.6 miles. Since I went there in the morning, driving east, and came home… Continue Reading →

The Wife told me that the dogs got unusually aggressive with one another tonight. I wasn’t there to see it, although I did hear them growl at each other without apparent provocation once I got home. Since then, they’ve been… Continue Reading →

I’m watching 60 Minutes, and I notice a new correspondent, Lara Logan. Her report is on the Airport Road in Baghdad, and she has some good questions for the military personnel and civilians affected by U.S. efforts to secure that… Continue Reading →