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I just found out that the online Social Security Administration office locator doesn’t like working on weekends and holidays. Really. Like, they open so many new offices during the week that it takes them 9 hours to load all the new addresses Saturday night.

I’m the sixth result at Google when you search for John Watson and the fourth when you search for “John Watson” (with quotes). The guys ahead of me are: the John Watson who invented the behaviorism branch of psychology and the John Watson who writes and reviews chess books. I’m ranked above the John Watson [...]

For the Photo Friday theme “Youth”:

My daugher asked me today, “Don’t you wish Mommy was your daughter?” I replied with a chuckle, “No, definitely not.” “Why not?” she asked. I thought about it for a minute, one horrible subject leading to the next in my mind, with her innocently asking “why, why,” unrelentingly. “I’ll tell you when you’re older,” I [...]

The Boy and I dropped The Girl off at pre-school this morning. When we returned home, I walked down to the curb to drop some movies in the mailbox. It was raining lightly and the snails were out in force. I pointed some out to The Boy thinking he would be interested in them; especially [...]

Er? I just looked up a word using Google and clicked the definition link. And instead of arriving at dictionary.com like I usually do, I ended up at answers.com. Unexpected, but nice. I like answers.com’s interface much better, especially that you don’t have to scroll past the annoying banner ad at the top of the [...]

I’ve only got 16 within five miles of my home and even that seems ridiculously high. That’s one Starbucks for every 3,125 residents of my small town. There’s a competition over at kottke.org to see who has the highest density.