Archive for December, 2006
Good Rest, Ye Merry Gentleman
Friday, December 29th, 2006My first writing hero is retiring today.
Chances are good that you’ve never heard of him. You’ve missed out.
For 35 years, Ray Orrock has entertained newspaper readers in California’s Alameda County with humorous and touching columns on everything under the sun. Except religion and politics. I’ve been reading his columns since just before my tenth birthday. […]
In Defense of Numbers
Friday, December 15th, 2006A couple people have suggested that maybe I’m using this blog to be a little too anti-math. OK, I love words, and I don’t much care for numbers, and the bias shows. But, I want to make it clear that numbers and math are important to me too. They’re just not as fun to play […]