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Brian Bilbrey October 27, 2011

Healthy Choices

Tim O'Reilly twittled about a talk at a conference, regarding "systemic" change to cities and food choices to enhance health. Really? We can't afford healthy, long-lived people! What this country needs is sick people, real sick people, people with low cost, short time-to-death diseases and infections. That'll solve our employment problems and our long-term social welfare funding issues, all in one go. It won't be as effective as the big rock from the sky with our name on it, but disease has the advantage of not damaging much in the way of physical infrastructure. Fewer people, faster commutes! * *…

Brian Bilbrey October 23, 2011

Long Week

It's been a very long week. A lot of work and planning went into two big multi-system transitions at the office. One took most of the day on Friday with follow-up work Saturday morning and today. The second was a bigger job, and we had most hands on deck from 5PM to nearly midnight last night. So far, everything seems to have come off as well as can be expected. Everything that didn't come off according to plan had contingency planning already completed - our checklists were really good. Yeah ... meetings are good for that. Sigh, I really didn't…

Brian Bilbrey October 17, 2011

Sidewalks, Ringtones, and iOS5

Time for the last walk of the evening for Lexi. Up the street we go ... and a couple of nights a week, we actually go up the street, rather than use the sidewalk, because some neighbors can't help but block the way. I've even spoken to them about it, to no avail. Either they can't remember that I asked, or they're malevolent. Grrr. I really *want* to tip that stuff all over their lawn in response, but I'm too bloody nice to do that. They do the same thing, only more sprawled out, with bags of lawn clippings. Sigh.

Brian Bilbrey October 16, 2011

The Duty

A busy weekend - the second paper for the Social Gerontology class is submitted. We got down to the District yesterday, and saw the new Degas exhibition at the Phillips Collection. A very nice day, and great weather for wandering about. Marcia's knee wasn't too happy about that after the fact, more's the pity. Today, mostly shopping and chores and whatnot. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Capt. Joshua S. Lawrence, 29, of Nashville, Tennessee, died Oct. 8, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit…

Brian Bilbrey October 13, 2011

School blues...

So, I took Monday off entirely. Well, almost entirely. A patch of ceiling needed primer, but other than that, I did nothing but read, relax, watch Mythbusters, and take care of the dog. That's unusual for me - usually I take time off and break myself with chores and whatnot. So, that was different. Then, Monday night, Marcia returned from a four-day Michigan trip, where she had a good time. However, we have a busy weekend planned, so I needed to knock out all of the school work, leaving precisely nothing to do later in the week. The last two…