My dad’s friend Doug caught this fish on our lake the other weekend:
It’s a Northern pike. And it’s big! They threw it back.
Archive for October, 2009
Fish story
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Announcement!
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Eileen has a new Snuggie.
It’s pretty nuts.
Keeping in mind that I know nothing about politics…
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009…my gut feeling about the fact that Wisconsin elects its judges (?!), a feeling shared by my wife and father-in-law and I imagine many other people, is that it’s bad policy.
(Via Dane101)
Swear words
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009A few minutes ago, while answering comments, I started self-censoring my language. I’m fond of working blue, but it occurred to me that (1) this blog is now a semiprofessional endeavor, and at least a public face of mine; and (2) even if it weren’t semiprofessional, it still attracts occasional readers who don’t know me—readers who may well subscribe to the comments on a post after leaving one themselves—and they don’t need my cesspool of a mouth sullying their monitor or inbox.
So I’m going to reserve out-and-out unedited bad words for only the rarest and most special of events. And if you think that means I’m a sellout, yes, that’s probably a fairly accurate assessment.
Why can’t I save my browser tabs?
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Here’s what I mean: I’m working on a news story, and I have a Firefox window open with six tabs, each showing the website of a potential source. I rounded up the sources earlier today, while waiting for a call, but I won’t have a chance to go through them until tomorrow or later in the week.
So now I have to keep this extra window open, unless I want to reopen all those websites again when I need them. Yes, if I quit Firefox, it’ll save my tabs; but as long as I’m using it—for, say, checking Gmail or writing this blog post—that window I don’t need for another day or two is just sitting there. (It’s minimized, but it’s still there.)
It shouldn’t be that hard to save your work, as it were, in a browser—I should have the option to save my browser state the same way I’d save a Word doc, for reopening at a later time. As far as I can tell, Firefox won’t let me do that, though. Do any of the other browsers?
