Posts tagged ‘personal’
Why I like DST
March 10th, 2013 at 8:34 pm by Dr. Drang
I know I’ve said some of this before, but if bloggers didn’t repeat themselves where would their content come from? I like Daylight Saving Time, and the advantages it brings more than make up for the slight disruption in my schedule. In fact, the most annoying thing to me about the DST changeovers is hearing…
A snowy day
March 5th, 2013 at 10:06 pm by Dr. Drang
It began snowing around 9:00 this morning, and by the time I left work the snow was thick enough to swallow all the sound. The few cars that drove past my office were like those silent futuristic vehicles in science fiction movies—just a low whoosh when they went past. As I brushed the snow off…
Onco
February 13th, 2013 at 11:45 pm by Dr. Drang
There’s been a lot of cancer talk the last couple of days in the Apple-centric corner of the internet. Yesterday, Federico Viticci of MacStories shared on Twitter the happy news that his recent PET scan came back negative. He followed that up with a little more detail today on his personal blog. Greg Pierce of…
Buck-U-Uppo
August 8th, 2012 at 11:00 am by Dr. Drang
I’m back from a long weekend/short vacation in northern Michigan. We stayed with friends at a house with no TV and no internet out in an area with spotty cell coverage. It is de rigueur for bloggers, upon returning from such a vacation, to write a post about how wonderful it is to be disconnected…
Storm over stress
July 26th, 2012 at 11:41 pm by Dr. Drang
I meant to include this bit in my last post but forgot. Since I don’t run ads here, you know I’m not trolling for page views. During my interview on Mac Power Users, I mentioned that my nom de net came from the German word for stress. Since then, a few actual German speakers (which…
Hotel wifi help
December 29th, 2011 at 6:57 pm by Dr. Drang
Let me start by apologizing for the title of this post. If you were searching for help with balky hotel wifi and wound up here through some horrible SEO failure, I can assure you you won’t find anything useful in what follows. It’s more a post about the lack of hotel wifi help. Last night…
Museum
December 15th, 2011 at 10:41 pm by Dr. Drang
I got a call yesterday afternoon to go to one of the northern suburbs to inspect a piece of machinery that broke that morning. On the drive home, with grimy hands from the equipment and a desperate need to pee from the schooner of tea I’d drunk on the way up, I pulled into a…
Silver plus one
November 30th, 2011 at 2:00 pm by Dr. Drang
Normal
November 7th, 2011 at 11:26 am by Dr. Drang
It’s in the nature of pseudonymous blogging to be a little impersonal, and although this blog has always been about what I think, it hasn’t—with one prominent exception I can think of—been about my life. I don’t want that to change, but there are a few things I need to say. First, Breast Cancer Awareness…
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
March 27th, 2011 at 2:25 am by Dr. Drang
My family and I are on vacation in Maui. There was a contest on the flight here from SFO a couple of days ago: Guess the exact time (to the nearest second) at which the plane would reach the halfway point of the trip. The crew gave out a lot of information about airspeed, distance,…
