You all know my opinions on homosexuality (and if you don’t, see A Compromise on Gay Marriage), so it shouldn’t surprise you that I agree with this Post editorial. Whatever your or my personal opinions on the morality of homosexual activity, precluding somebody from service to their country on the basis of sexual orientation is stupid. It is especially so in a time of war.
Spectacular Failure of a Computer Display [at work]
So something interesting happened at work yesterday (which, in my 20 years using computers, had never happened to me before). The 17″ CRT monitor on my work computer (an XP machine; I forget the monitor brand) tried spectacularly to catch fire.
Wedding Planning; Dvorak Progress; etc.
Wow, I’ve been slacking on the posting lately, haven’t I?
Wedding planning has been moving along reasonably well (which is good, given that there’s only 50 days of bachelorhood left). The rings came in to Kay the other day, and we’re getting the engraving (and Melissa’s resizing; mine was special-ordered in the right size) done now. There’s a bit of upheaval with both the rehearsal dinner and Reception II: The Bedford Reception (long stories, explain later), and there’s one more run of invitations to do, but it’s all moving forward.
Marriage Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
Wonderful piece in the Post this morning by William Raspberry, who has a great understanding of what is wrong with marriage and relationships today. It includes this lovely quote by theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
Website 16.1 Revision
Well, now that I’ve got the poetry section live, I finally got to make some of the site-wide tweaks that I’ve been wanting to make for a few months. I’ve put some effort into eliminating needless empty space, compressing the main menus, improving consistency (like the gray trim-lines in the header), and generally making things look classier.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.