Archive for June, 2006
Hours of Daylight – 15:29 Is today a biggie? Today is the solstice, but according to the naval observatory the days are already getting shorter. Lost a whole minute we have. Today is also my last day of employment at Idaho Power. I think the word for the day will be "ambivalent." I will miss my daily time [ READ MORE ]
Hours of Daylight – 15:30 That the health care system in this country is completly and utterly broken is not news, but the many and varied ways it’s broken continues to amaze and depress me. A big problem can be found in the interface between humans and computers. The problem is coding. See, when you go [ READ MORE ]
Hours of Daylight – 15:29 So i found this thing at the pet store… it’s a smaller version of the loopy metal thing used to strip hair from horses. It does a fantastic job of removing the undercoat from cats. Isa and Mora are clearly cold-weather cats… the amount of downy underfur i ripped out of [ READ MORE ]
Hours of Daylight – 15:28 These are the long days of summer in Boise. But fortunately we’re getting loads of rain. It’s official: i prefer overcast/rainy/moody weather over constant sunshine. I would rather live in a place that’s predominantly cloudy/rainy with breaks of sunshine than one that is mostly sunny with the odd day of rain [ READ MORE ]