Decades ago, while home for the holidays from college, I attended a church-sponsored all-night New Year’s Eve party for college students. The organizers, whom I knew, had cozened me into providing (for a few hours) one of the on-going entertainments. They had crudely decorated a refrigerator box to look like a mainframe computer and […]
OK, so I was (and am still) dismayed by the outcome of the elections, and all that has happened during the two months since has done little to alleviate my concern. Given that plenty of other blogs continue to fight the political fight, I am taking a hiatus from that fight myself. Except, of course, […]
It’s hard to believe that this is only day 2 of the cruise — we have been underway since about 5 pm on Sunday, with only a half-hour pause at the Bahamas in a vain attempt to see whether we could make our scheduled stop at Half Moon Cay (answer: no). So right now we’ve […]
Our port o’ call at Half Moon Cay (Bahamas) was cancelled due to strong winds and heavy swells (tenders are used to transport passengers to and from the island), so we spent the whole day at sea (with some strong swells, which seem to have died down in the last hour or so). Two sessions […]
[Final version — flights are done and I’m on the ground in Florida] “All the most important mistakes are made on the first day.” – The Art of Systems Architecting (Maier & Rechtin) Project Orca was the Romney campaign’s technological effort to track in near-real-time actual voting in precincts all over the United States, with […]
No, no, no — just on a cruise. Or, more specifically, on the National Review 2012 Post-Election Cruise. Sandra and I went on the NR Cruise last year and had an absolutely wonderful time. This year, I suspect things will be a bit more pained, if determined. Maybe we’ll work to form a shadow cabinet, […]
Among the election post-mortems I’m reading this morning, I see a frequent refrain about how Mitt Romney wasn’t a strong or ideal candidate. My immediate question is: compared to whom? Here are the GOP candidates who entered the race and stuck around long enough to participate in the initial debates. Who among the other seven […]
Romney did not win big. He did not win at all. The GOP did not gain control of the Senate and may have lost ground. I was clearly wrong on what the American people wanted. At least 49% of them, in states that added up to an electoral college victory. I was worried after I […]
[Thanks to the links from Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds), Chaos Manor (Jerry Pournelle), and John C. Wright’s Journal (John C. Wright — what, you were expecting Karl Rove?). In fact, if you follow the link below to my 2008 post, you’ll see that I first read the poem over at Jerry Pournelle’s blog, Chaos Manor.] I posted this poem […]
