Kara & Michael’s Blog

We had to rush Inari to the kitty hospital last night at 10:00pm. We had a candle burning on our dresser and she jumped up to take a look at it (we’ve had candles burning all the time, and she’d never taken an interest in one before). Before we could pull her away from it, [...]

By now, I think most readers have figured out I tend to peruse news sites with some pretty severe liberal leanings.  It’s not that I feel as if I’m getting more truth there, just a different truth.  They cover different issues.  I still read through the AP news every day, mostly to feel connected, in [...]

Today I’m thinking about break-ups, after receiving the news of the break-up of my bestest friend in the whole world (minus WoDM, of course) and her boyfriend of over a year. My thoughts are all over the place, which is par for the course, I suppose.
My first thoughts are remembering what it felt like [...]

Voltaire
A name you never noticed
a philosopher you never read
Who knows what woman spawned you?
what creation owned you?
I never owned you, I borrowed you
I gave you a home and plants
and food and friends and light
I sustained you, I smiled at you
but you never knew
how could you?
K.
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My poor pet frog Voltaire died suddenly this morning, of causes unknown. I have prepared the following eulogy in his honor:

–Michael

Now, I know it’s not fair to call the customers in an electronics store stupid — after all, the majority of them are probably decent, upstanding human beings. But when high-tech and everyday necessity collide, there are often unfortunate results. The following are misusages and bizarre substitutions for a variety of computer-related terms, all of [...]

I received the following claptrap in my e-mail box today, and I’m reproducing it verbatim in case you haven’t read it yet:
MG Vernon Chong, USAFR, forwarded:
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