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For my wife

By Phil Barron ⋅ March 24, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

M will understand the reference.

The list, it gets longer

By Phil Barron ⋅ March 24, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

I am shocked, shocked to find that I have things to do.

Penny foolish

By Phil Barron ⋅ February 20, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Continuing the unlikely and yet entirely predictable saga of the one cent charge from AT&T.

Thanks, perfect stranger

By Phil Barron ⋅ January 31, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

You can find just about anything on the web by accident. Even timely succor.
Failure doesn’t stop me from blogging. In fact, I prefer the failure of a blog post to the failure of a newspaper column. Back when I was a columnist and reporter, I had to wait days to redeem myself from a [...]

Penny. Wise?

By Phil Barron ⋅ January 30, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

One should fight like the devil the impulse to think well of AT&T. Exhibit one million and five for the prosecution: our latest wireless bill.

A picture is worth an hour of America’s Most Wanted

By Phil Barron ⋅ January 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A brief note on my trip to the driver’s license bureau, a place as friendly as any government office in the old Soviet Russia.

And my acne cleared up, too

By Phil Barron ⋅ September 27, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

Less of this, please
The relative quiet in this blog space is due to a handful of factors. Firstly, I’ve been fairly busy at, ah, you know, the place where most of the blogging gets done. Additionally, I’ve been doing more non-blog-type writing; I’ve found that this tends to bleed off a lot of the energy [...]

Recursivity

By Phil Barron ⋅ September 11, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Memory Alpha, the wiki-driven yet authoritative compendium of Star Trek lore, defines the insidious condition known as the temporal causality loop:
A temporal causality loop (or simply temporal loop) is a special condition of time, in which time runs for a certain period, then resets itself to a point back in time, after which the events [...]

An eternal verity

By Phil Barron ⋅ September 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

There’s still nothing like a stomach virus to distract one from cosmic thoughts and global concerns.
Just in case you were wondering if that had changed.

It’s like pulling teeth

By Phil Barron ⋅ August 9, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Speaking from a more-or-less general, skim-the-headlines viewpoint, this has been a thoroughly craptastic week, and there’s still one more weekday to go. It’s only fitting, then, that I spend that day undergoing oral surgery.
Better days to come, folks. Later.

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