Leigh Ann just emailed me with the news.
As of 9:00 THIS MORNING, they are CLOSED. C-L-O-S-E-D. No last chance for pizza. No last goodbye. No last pitcher of beer. NOTHING.
This is just too awful to describe. Terry’s has Legend status in my family. It was not only the first […]

I love you, Dad, and hope you have a great birthday!

Some how this article got posted twice. Not sure how that happened, but I was riffing off the post in an awful hurry, and maybe I hit a button twice.

Andrea Yates has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of murder in the drowning deaths of her five children. If there has ever been someone who is NUTS it is Andrea Yates. This woman needs to be in a hospital, not in prison. Frankly, I don’t care if they have to keep her […]

Looks like another very rainy day. It rained almost all day yesterday, only letting up in the late afternoon. I drove through that rain yesterday morning on my way down to Angleton to protest (successfully) my annual property appraisal. Today the rain started early. It was already raining lightly when I left for work at […]

Last week we took the girls to see the Lion King musical that’s playing for a few weeks at the Hobby Center here in Houston. We bought the tickets nearly a year ago, and I had forgotten about the date, despite Wendy’s attempts to warn me it was coming up soon.
The show was simply spectacular. […]

Three men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large, raging violent river.
Needing to get to the other side, the first man prayed, “God give me the strength to cross the river.”
Poof! God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about two hours, having […]

This is not what I meant. A new keyboard is like $5 at CompUSA! (Well, OK, so I went a little overboard with the “hung over” remark, but I was fishing for a laugh.) Still: a missing key is no excuse. Besides you could copy a ‘c’ from somewhere else and paste it in wherever […]

Cory Doctorow:
English is a brawling, promiscuous drunkard of a language made up of mispronounced and stolen words from other languages, and that’s what makes it such a glory to speak.

They started the de-orbit engine burn about a minute ago, with two minutes remaining. What lies ahead is one of the most hazardous parts of the journey, but the inspections say Discovery is on good shape, so I’m sure she’ll bring her crew safely to Florida.
Update: A perfect do-orbit burn has completed. There is no […]