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I'm leaving on the first of many trips. This one will take me to California to visit relatives. I know I've been away and promised to be here more, but been busy again with 1st block of summer term which I finished. I had joined the UVU dance team, broke up with my ex-girlfriend again, and just about killed myself in the meantime with weird accidents. I have a strange life sometimes... I have the next 8 weeks for vacations, gardening, writing, and programming, so let's see what I can do with the...

Well, I am packing to move again. I won't go into the whole story, but I am currently in house #16 in this lifetime, and I am preparing to go to house #17, and then house #18. #17 will be a rental for 6-12 months while I do some serious business of letting life settle down, then I will be able to pick a proper #18 and get on with things.

What is the cause of all this moving about? Well, the first 12 were because I was the child of modern-day gypsies in constant pursuit of greater...

Buffy wanted me to do a blogen* on cooking. Okay, Buffy, this one is for you.

It's very nearly impossible to do an adequate job of cooking something -- and I mean by this, all the effort required to chop, slice, mix, thaw, beat, combine, measure, cut, pour, stir, manage the temperature, serve, etc -- AND think about sex at the same time.

And it's a good thing, too. This twist of reality (that is, the impossibility of cooking and simultaneously thinking about sex)...

I’ll have you know that I’m not really “old” in any ordinary sense of the word. I think young, I act young (when I have the spare energy), and still retain all the curiosity and wonder as I ever did as a kid. And I was a pretty smart kid.
Why, I remember as clear as yesterday that my Mom took me to visit some family in Philadelphia. I was only seven or thereabouts, and was totally bored with all the adult conversation going on in the house, so I sneaked out the back and wandered down main...

I became a Bright after reading the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I had been an atheist for a very long time and Dawkins was a hero of mine ever since he presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures here in London. I forget what year it was but it was very interesting. Much better than the anodyne stuff we have been getting in recent years. What I remember most from his lectures was the enormity of geological time in comparison to human history of the last few thousand years.
It...