Tales from FAR Manor

9-½ hours after leaving, give or take. Wife’s brother & his family is here for a little euchre & New Year’s celebration. So FAR Mano...

So you commit criminal acts by using the NSA to spy on American citizens. The news gets out, and what do you do? Stop the criminal acts? Oh,...

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My bro Solar came down with the flu yesterday — fever of 102°F and all. I brought some beef stew from Mom’s last night, then ran & got h...

Daughter Dearest is hovering over my shoulder at the moment, wondering when I’m going to get off her computer so she can go back to IM’ing ...

Putting stuff away in the outbuilding last night, I found two more short stories from my college days. That brings the total number of short...

Daughter Dearest has been annoying the Red teachers at school with this one: Happy Christeidholikwanzukah!

It’s official: I won’t be setting foot in the office until next year. I’ll take the car in for an oil change tomorrow and generally get it r...

It’s about people, st00p1d! It applies equally well to product design, documentation design, or work environments.

Category: Technology Current music: Digitally Imported (DI.fm) EuroDance According to this article in Wired , Siemens has demonstrated a fle...

Perhaps The Register won’t yank this story about Bad Santas terrorizing New Zealand like they did with the guy who chatted up his mom onlin...

Gmail, if you haven’t heard, is Google’s free (but invitation-only) email service. They’ve recently added a useful new feature: you can acce...

Current music: DI.fm Chillout I’m not terribly fond of weekends where you have no decompress time. Saturday morning dawned; Mrs. Fetched and...

One of the recurring theme of conversations with The Boy, especially bringing him home from work, is his assertion that he, Lobster, and M.A...

The beginning and end of this year have seen ice storms at FAR Manor now. The storm in January was much stronger, icing up the ground as wel...

Second night in a row that I couldn’t get to the computer — I was mucking out the gutters in the outbuilding, by hand, in the dark cold rain...

“I walked out on that dark beach thinking I was going to hook up with the girl of my dreams.... But when I got close, she turned around — an...

The carpet stretcher worked a treat, as my friends across the pond might say. Mrs. Fetched thought it looked great. I finished tacking down ...

I wrote this a long time ago — say, 1992 or so. The original hinted at an 80’s setting, when speech synthesizers were first hitting mass ma...

I saw this on Street Prophets, and thought it worth passing on.