Here we are in Anaheim. I'm going to be 50 this December but I've finally made it to Disneyland. Beetlejuice and Mr. Jack aren't too impressed, but they're only kitties. Myself I want to go on Space Mountain. This was the longest leg of our drive, a little over 5 hours. The traffic in California …
Category: Odds & Ends
Random oddities.
The Big Move: Day One
The truck and pod are loaded and on there way. Took the kittens and ourselves to a motel for the night. The call of a real bed was just too hard to ignore. At least the money from the closing on the house is in our bank account. Now all the questions pop into my …
A Phrase I Hate
One thing I've been seeing pop up on social media is the phrase, "toxic masculinity." My problem is that I think this reduces the underlying problem. There is nothing toxic about being a man, or a woman for that matter. The problem is being a belligerent ass. The problem is this, "if I'm winning you …
The New Digital Divide
I've noticed, as I am sure other librarians have, an influx of people searching online for jobs and struggling. Not with finding employment, but with the computer. Many do not have email accounts, or if they do they cannot remember their login credentials. It creates a whole extra hurdle to what already is a difficult …
Up In a Puff of Smoke
So, here is my first post of 2018 and it's a cliche. A funny thing happened this past weekend. My website was ready for it's annual renewal of the hosting, domains and. email. My wallet was not ready. I still had this older site, which you may or may not remember, and decided not to …
I’ve Moved
Not too far though. I have moved my website from vaalascia.wordpress.com to my own hosted site http://www.vaalascia.com. You may need to update your bookmarks, so visit the site and see the new look. Also if you subscribed to stay in the loop I suggest you resubscribe on the new site. I have asked the good …
A New Game in Town
My review of the Ouya Game console as it appears in the MCLC TechTalk blog. http://mclctechtalk.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=810&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2
Escapism
Sometimes we all need someplace to sneak away to even if it is a fictitious hamlet filled with furry animals. What? Let me explain. I recently downloaded Animal Crossing New Leaf to my Nintendo 3DS. My wife and I spent far more hours than we would care to admit in the original release on the …
Convergence
I was reading the latest edition of Wired magazine when I realized something; it is getting harder to tell the articles from the advertisements. I know ads pay for all the articles in magazines and newspapers. I am just used to being able to tell the two apart. Now some of these adds go on …
Monday April 22, 2013 – “Paint it Black”
The group Anonymous has called for Monday April 22, to be Internet Blackout Day in response to the House of Representatives passing the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Rather than taking down this site for the day, I thought it might be better to call attention to the bill since it still has …
