In The Time Traveler’s Wife, Henry misses his wedding.  The events depicted in the film are fun, but they are also problematic.  The Time Traveler’s Wife part 8:  Altared examines some of the intricacies of that event. Meanwhile, the heat has been up the past few days, making it more difficult to complete work because [...]

My newest Examiner temporal anomalies article is really about predestination as it impacts time travel.  It’s called The Time Traveler’s Wife part 7:  just say “No”, and considers the ramifications of Clare’s rejection of Henry’s marriage proposal, which she immediately changes to acceptance. It strikes me that it’s easy to think that life is rough [...]

I am one who opposes change for its own sake.  If something is to be changed, it should be because the new is clearly an improvement over the old.  I am at this point hoping that this be the case at The Examiner, where I presently publish my temporal anomalies pieces.  They are upgrading to [...]

What was to be a quick couple of errands morphed into six hours of dinner and dessert with a friend in the next state.  That is not a complaint, but only an explanation; the explanation should also state that it is within the realm of possibility that I will be taking someone to the hospital [...]

I’ve been to see a doctor a few times lately, and the diagnosis seems to be that I’m allergic to anything that touches my skin, if it does so enough.  So my allergy meds have been upped to deal with this.  My computer has also gone to see its own doctor, and now there is [...]

Well, things are not quite running smoothly.  In fixing my computer the shop found a flaw in the primary hard drive, which meant replacing it, reinstalling the operating system, and then returning it to me with the task of reinstalling all the other programs I use week in and week out for e-mail, FTP, documents, [...]

This Blogless Lepolt entry is the one after nine-oh-nine, if anyone knows that reference.  At least, it is if my numbering has been maintained accurately all these years. I will be without a computer, probably from late this afternoon probably until late Sunday afternoon.  The memory increase and RAID driver (that’s probably a redundancy, and [...]

Before we get any further, let me observe publicly that today has been eight-nine-ten, and no one mentioned that in my hearing.  Usually people get all excited about odd dates of that sort, but they happen often enough I suppose. It has been a rough weekend.  As mentioned, I sent my computer out for diagnostics [...]

Finally, actually full since your visit to this strange land of men in kilts, which now includes you, you sleep hard. Waking the next day, you look again in the bath for means of a wash, and spot a button high on the white wall, the same color. Crossing your fingers that it does not [...]

I find myself racing against the expectation that the computer is going to shut down once again.  The temperature in the room has been creeping up–only the middle of the eighties at the moment, but I’ve had several cold shutdowns, forced restarts, and freezes, despite setting an ice pack against the lower intake.  With all [...]