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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 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…

Brian Bilbrey September 27, 2011

No guilt at all

Last night was fun - in between the chores we got to visit with Marcia's friend and former manager Judy, who was in town for a Peace Corps event. Out to supper at Mi Hacienda, then the girls had a nice chat while I finished up the trash and did some school work. We were up at 0530, and Marcia ran Judy down to the train while I confused the dog by walking her early on a working day. What I'm not feeling guilty about is schooling some of my fellow students in the Social Gerontology course. At least one…

Brian Bilbrey September 19, 2011

Lexi Pictured Here

Lexi especially loves the new camera. I've been researching DSLRs for over a year. What I wanted and what is prudent are two very different things, too. I've held back from buying a D7000, since I'm not a "serious" photographer. But I want to take much better pictures than I can with any of our other cameras. So when a great deal came up at BJ's, I plunked down for a Nikon D5100 kit with a couple of lenses and a bag. I've supplemented that with a spare battery, a 35mm prime lens, a filter, an SB400 flash, and a…

Brian Bilbrey August 30, 2011

A is for Appropriate

I would have said awesome, but the 'A' that I got for each class this summer was more tiring than awesome. Survival of challenging course work is harder at this age, and with a full work load besides. On the flip side, I'm certainly better organized, more motivated, and purposely successful than I ever was as a student previously. On the gripping hand, since I started at this last death march to finish a BS, I've accumulated 16 straight 'A's. Only eight more to completion (unless I calculate the courses wrong, and end up having to take one or two…