It’s hard to believe that just one week ago it was snowing here. It soared into the mid to upper 70s this weekend – a perfect setting for the Exceptional Foundation’s annual chili cook-off. We had never been for some reason but had heard thousands of people turn out to our small Homewood Park ...

It's getting to be spring again, and the bike-bug has bit me hard once again (it's been far, far too long!) Earlier today I spent some time wandering through the motorcycle stores here in O-Town (isn't that the name of a 90s pop group?) to find myself a few new pieces of motorcycle kit when I came a...

Day after day we are assaulted with the idea, fundamental to the assisted suicide movement, that some lives are not worth living and hence, not worth protecting from suicide. This advocacy, I believe, does not really promote liberty and freedom, but rather, endangers lives--of the elderly, people wi...

I just went over the posts I've put up here for the last couple of months and they are mostly cop-out picture posts.  Yes, everyone loves pictures and one of the reasons I write here is to chronicle life with Jack, but I haven't put anything of substance up lately (wait, have I ever?&#...

    You’ve seen the advice before— it’s not a good programming practice to catch System.Exception . Because managed exceptions are hierarchical, catching the top of the hierarchy—e.g., catch(Exception)—is an easy way to make sure that you catch all exceptions.  But do you re...

Ingredients 1 cause that can touch the hearts of everyone, for example charity: water 180+ well-connected Twitterati located in prominent cities around the world 1 cheerful and motivated event coordinator in London 1 smokin' tech dude to handle all the development issues 20,000+ people who are all t...

Yesterday I tested Catholic priest and radio personality John Corapi’s prediction that… If we do not soon stop the genocide of abortion in the United States, we shall run the course of all those that prove by their actions that they are enemies of God—total collapse, economic, social, ...

So!  Today is my 32nd birthday. Five or six years ago I was sitting with my friend Robert (hi Robert!) at Cambridge Common in Cambridge, MA, drinking a beer and talking about life and taxes (Robert also does my taxes) and I mentioned that things were feeling so up in the air and I felt kind of...

"Come on Mother of All Abominations, let's wrap up the laundry and go fornicate."...

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