Last September, a distant cousin of mine, Mark, found my blog and left a comment explaining who he was. Mark’s mother and my grandfather were cousins, both the grandchildren of Rasmus Rasmussen, a sailor, author and Lutheran reverend that sailed from Norway to the United States on a viking ship for the 1893 Chicago [...]

My absentee ballot for the May 6, 2008, North Carolina Democratic Primary arrived finally. Like a good voter, I spent a couple hours putting each candidate’s name into Google and learning about their opinions on various issues. Some of them, like the humorously named Duskin Lassiter, lost my vote for simple reasons of [...]

Two disasters befell me yesterday. Both times, I was saved by the foresight of my friends. The largest disaster, by far, was that I accidentally deleted my entire blog database. All those 198,919 words in 522 posts, and 93,656 words in 1,730 comments, everything was gone! I had no backups!

This happens time and time again.
Back in 1995, when I got in trouble for connecting my computer to the computer of my hallmate with an arcnet cable because we were “breaking curfew” at the boarding school, we thought, “What we really need is a radio transmitter and receiver to connect our network cards to. [...]

Here I was on my sofa, watching some Ruleta de Suerte, a few minutes ago, when they interrupted the program with some breaking news. I was annoyed, assuming that I wouldn’t care about whatever they said, but they proceeded to tell us that, just a few minutes ago, an ETA terrorist shot an ex-councilman, [...]

As promised, here are the official wedding photos. I’m very pleased with how they turned out. Photos of such an important day are really invaluable. We really had a great time.
If you prefer, you can browse them by thumbnail. Or have a full-window slideshow.

The photographer that we paid to photograph our wedding drove 90 minutes from Mondragon to Colindres this morning to drop off our wedding albums and pick up a big wad of cash. His bank account must be feeling a little shallow as we approach the end of the wedding off season. We are [...]

You know, I’m really fed up with having to stay up late, and then wait the entire two hours that it takes people to post the Super Bowl commercials to the internet. It’s been several years now, and I just can’t take it anymore. So this year, I’m going across the pond to [...]

Marga has always considered “planting a tree” to be one of those items on the “things you must do in your lifetime” list. Today she checked that item off the list. At a dinner party last night, we learned that some friends were planning on planting a tree today, and Marga couldn’t contain [...]

Man, talk about winning a poetry contest! Some 52-year-old bloke, named Paulino Cubero, has won the competition to author the lyrics to the Spanish National Anthem. Coming from the super-duper patriotic, “pledge allegiance to the flag every morning in elementary school”, United States to a country where they don’t even have lyrics for [...]