Let's all welcome my niece, Yvonne (Evie) Lois Molden to the world. (She looks just like her big brother if you ask me!) Congratulatio...

It was back home today. But first, we stopped and looked at a house that is for rent. It's 4½ miles out of town, and on roughly 2 acres ...

Another day in paradise. We had breakfast on the veranda of our bungalow with the sound of waves, crowing chickens, and tweeting birds. Af...

Epril and I are celebrating our anniversary in The Philippines' best-kept secret... the place where Filipinos go when they want to go to...

Did you know that Yale has over 20 courses available for free on their website ? Real courses consisting of dozens of lectures by the real Y...

I'm beginning to realize that Filipinos can be divided into two categories: Those whose think too little of themselves, and those who t...

Epril, her mother, sisters Susan and Ednel, and niece Doreen all arrived home this morning, returning by ferry from Epril's mother's...

Watch this video of a celebrity at the airport in Los Angeles. Can you imagine what that must be like? The flashes blinding you, your famil...

Everybody is aware that certain things about The Philippines can be anachronistic or even downright other-worldly, but this article entitled...

Slate has republished an article which examines why, after so many years, there has not been another terrorist attack in the United States....

Adding on to Sullivan's thoughts below, we do really live in a world where thin-skinned, volatile, and hidebound societies are ripe for....

The reason why Andrew Sullivan is my favorite political writer is because on an almost-daily basis, some words he writes will decoct my tho...

My mother-in-law's mother, Epril's grandmother, passed away last night in Leyte. The family is getting ready to catch the ferry to C...

Allow me to geek out for a moment. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, and has been a popular little photographic trick for a few years now. ...

Vancouver wants to give its citizens practice in running over little girls , so they've created this 2D/3D road painting of a girl chasi...

I didn't realize it when President Obama said that special interests in Washington "talk about me like a dog," but that's ...

The U.S. Government has a new website up called mySkills myFuture , which lets you put in your current sucky or nonexistent job, and it give...

I thought I had checked that everything was as expected on my new used computer before buying it: 512 MB of memory? Yup. 80 GB hard driv...

This past week was Jasaan's fiesta, and there were lots of goings-on, including of course a big parade that everybody showed up to see. ...

A fellow named Marian, a Polish-American who has recently moved to Cagayan de Oro and is soon to be married to his fianceé, Kenny, was attac...

Sorry about not posting much this week. I know how you look forward to reading about what I am doing... even when it is as close to nothing...

I am beginning to suspect that my wife doesn't like it when I shave off my beard. When I have my beard (especially the stubbly-not-bushy...

Cool . Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal — named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor's day or Thursday — pro...