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May 10, 2007

Two months of quiet time...

Sorry about that, for those that care. A month ago, our second child (heretoafter referred to as CozikinBoy) was born, and life has been quite, quite hectic. Maybe soon I'll start paying attention to the world again.

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December 22, 2006

Update

Cozy Corner has been on hiatus for a bit; and blogging will continue to be light. In addition to increased business at work, I've got a pinched nerve in my back, and the pain has really driven my attention span down. Fortunately, I can still read.

Just finished A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell. Of any philosophical work I've read, this is the one I'd most recommend to folks out there trying to create a dialogue across the liberal/conservative gap. Simply put, Sowell argues that there are two distinct visions of how the world - and people - operate. Your political philosophy is built atop your belief - and may therefore seem incomprehensible to someone coming from a different foundation.

Finally read A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller, Jr. Wow. I can see a bit of where L.E. Modesitt, Jr gets some of his inspiration from. If you're interested in post-apocalyptic multi-millennial stories, here's a good one.

Also got, and finished, Island in the Sea of Time, by S.M. Stirling. It's a time-travel triggered alternate history - in this case, Nantucket gets cast back three millennia. A very good read, especially if you're a logisitician. Many of you will find the summary of the interaction with the Olmec quite amusing.

And, finally, Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp. One of the original time-travelling novels - an historian goes back to the fall of the Roman Empire. A nice read, if a little light on some of the logistics. But when you look at what Martin Padway has to fight up against, you can see why the Empire fell.

On the reading list: A War Like No Other, A Meeting at Corvallis, and Hell's Gate.

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October 04, 2006

Where's Cozy Corner?

Sorry for the light posting. The combination of Yom Kippur, illnesses in the house, and extra business at work have taken their toll.

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September 15, 2006

Back to vacation!

Well, sitting out on the porch at the main house of the cottages we're staying at to get my Internet fix can only last so long. Hopefully the cloud cover will break tomorrow and there can be warm beachtime!

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Disclaimer

For the record, I've been contacted by Edelman PR regarding Wal-Mart (I guess I should spell it with the hyphen now). They've asked if they can reach out to me from time to time with information I might find interesting. Since, of course, anyone can do so, using the email address in the sidebar, it's only polite that I give them the same courtesy. No remuneration is coming my way in any fashion for this.

I thought I'd toss this out there before my next post, which touches on Wal-Mart, even though totally unrelated to this outreach.

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September 13, 2006

Taking a vacation

Cozy Corner is taking a vacation for the next few days. I'm taking the CozyWife and CozikinGirl down to the beach before winter sets in. Blogging will range from nonexistent to bursty, depending on the weather. I'm updating my blogroll, so if you're here and bored, go chase down one of the folks over there - they rarely bite.

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July 22, 2006

Comments Policy

Since I'm starting to get a few comments, I thought I should lay out the policy now, before it is too late. I'm going to use Typekey for authentication; authenticated commenters can be trusted, and their comments will be autopublished. All unauthenticated comments will be held for moderation before publication.

I will not edit comments, unless I'm feeling generous about your typos.

I will try to filter trolling, anti-semitism, and anything else which offends or annoys me. I'll try to be consistent with that. Do not assert that you have any First Amendment rights to comment here. If you want to say anything, go get your own blog. This is my soapbox, and my First Amendment right to expressive association easily includes filtering people to silence.

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