in bed with Google

How deeply are you in bed with Google?  Personally, I think it’s a bad idea to get too deeply in bed with any one company.  It’s concerning individually, and more, in the aggregate.  Really, we need a competitor to disrupt Google because right now Google has a scary monopoly and access to crazy amounts of…

stuff

We are in Virginia for one month.  We came with just one suitcase.  In addition, everyone had a small carry-on for the plane, in which we had a sweater and a few books for entertainment.  That’s it.  In our one suitcase, we had clothes for the five of us as well as toiletries, a first-aid…

vacation in virginia

We’ve been to a few theoretically warm places in the last few years.  Hawaii and the Bahamas spring to mind.  But neither of them really had truly warm water.  Like, you could go in the water for sure, but you’d better have a towel ready when you got out.  It was downright chilly in the…