Survive This
The CBS show Survivor is currently in its 21st season, and I continue to be an avid viewer. I think I’ve only missed one or two seasons, and the producers continue to surprise and delight me every year. One of the things the show does to mix things up is create special parameters by which [...]
Lost Immunity
“Destiny is a fickle bitch.” –Ben Linus, Lost The title of this entry refers to a male contestant (Erik) in the final five on Survivor who decided, thanks to some supreme manipulation and tomfoolery by the four female contestants, to give his immunity idol to another contestant to prove his loyalty. As planned, the four [...]
I Lived Through a 5.2-Magnitude Earthquake: A Survivor’s True Tale of Survival Against All Odds
At 4:37 am this morning, an earthquake measuring 5.2 (barely perceptible tremors) on the Richter scale shook the walls of my condo. 14 hours later, against all odds, I’m still alive. I am a survivor. This is my story. Caroline and I (sleeping in separate beds, divided by an impenetrable wall of Catholic doctrine) woke [...]
Truthbits
Why do computers not remember HTML text? Like, if you’re on a website, and you fill in a text box with some information, if you accidentally click on the wrong like, when you return to the original page, the text is gone. Why can’t it save that text? When you open a folder in Windows, [...]
