Hope you have a great 2016!

(Not posting a retrospective of 2015. It's in the past, and the only way out is forward.)

Jupiter Ascending, or why the role of Jupiter could be played by a house plant

JoDee and I recently watched the movie Jupiter Ascending. JoDee and I were talking about the movie afterward and it occurred to me that the role of Jupiter is completely superfluous to the movie, and …

Next week is Christmas.

I can't even process that. Don't get me wrong: I'll gladly see the backside of all of those insipid Christmas-themed songs in ever shopping establishment. And I'll welcome returning to the normal flow of advertisements without 15 exhortations to buy half the planet to put under …

Earlier today I canceled my dad-in-law's Comcast service. I took over the boxes and modem over to the service center. JoDee wanted to stay in the car but once I went in there I told her she needed to come inside.

Inside was a blend of (I shit thee not …

Updated Spigot to put the titles on my blog postings. Hopefully now it'll look better on identi.ca.

Thanks to Jan Kusanagi for the pointers on how to make this happen.