BurningbirdFirst, MT 2.21 has broken my categories. I can’t assign a category to an entry, and can’t republish my category archives. Next, my server is getting resource bound and I’m running into problems. Don’t expect ThreadNeedle too soon unless I get rich and can upgrade my server. Update: I’m in negotiations with Interland to go to […]
To get my degree in psychology, I had to establish a specific hypothesis and then design and conduct experiments to either prove or disprove it. I based my hypothesis on the work conducted by Dr. Martin Seligman on Learned Helplessness. Dr. Seligman’s theory is that an organism (dogs, rats, college sophomores, or other), when exposed to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As some of you know, I collect rare minerals, in traditional crystalline habit, thumbnail sized, and with matrix. All of which is just a fancy way of saying that I collect crystals. I started the collection years and years ago with a watermelon tourmaline cross-section, soon joined by dioptase, azurite, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After a week of trying to get DSL setup and having it work for exactly one day; and after a week of Earthlink not returning calls or following through on promised actions, I’m throwing in the towel. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look as if any other DSL carriers serve my particular […]
From the archives, Wayback Machine has an entry including comments from 2002 Interesting comments on the Value of Anger posting. As I expected, this is not a subject that people tread lightly. However, I was surprised at how personally some people took this posting. For instance, Dave Rogers disagrees, strongly, with the concept of “healthy anger”, writing: Anger isn’t […]