When I fill out one of those medical history forms you get when you go to a new doctor, I hate the section where you list all the things that people in your family suffer from or had at some time in the past. It’s like a genetic roadmap of terrible life-devouring potholes waiting for you in [...]
This morning my boss walked in and said, as benignly as he could, “Do you guys have some time to talk about the budget?” He was referring to the proposed 2009-2011 Oregon budget published earlier this week by Governor Kulongoski. I’d been waiting for him to walk in and say that ever since [...]
I took Synaptic Silence completely down a while back. It wasn’t doing what I wanted it to do, it didn’t sound anything like me, and I was pretty sure that no one on the planet besides me and my wife Ruth was actually reading it. And Ruth was probably only reading it because, [...]
