Author: Rick Klau

Saw Dennis’s post about Ernie, and this snippet caught my attention: In fact, on the list of my great musical regrets is never getting to chance to see Professor Longhair do a show in New Orleans. I might write about some of the other regrets one of these days. It’s interesting how my Professor Longhair…

This sounds like a great idea… The always amusing Onion‘s own AV club has an interesting new way to goof around with a TiVo: set a random keyword wishlist and automatically record to see what you capture in 24 hours, dubbed TiVo Wishlist Roulette. They set it to “War” and let it go to town,…

Why, none other than the current president. “As near as I can tell, it’s OK.” If ever there was a motto for the Bush administration, that is it. Just about sums it up, actually.

Ernie the Attorney is now blogging at Tech FengShui, a blog that focuses on making technology simple and useful. This is supposed to be simple? I missed that memo.

Over at BenedictXVI.com, Rogers has a couple requests in exchange for transferring ownership of ‘benedictxvi.com’ to the Vatican. My favorite, number 3: “Complete absolution, no questions asked, for the third week of March 1987.”

I wrote earlier this week about our week in Florida, and alluded to my laptop woes. Here’s the rest of the story: we flew to Orlando on Saturday morning. On Sunday, after a busy morning, we got the kids back to the room for a nap, and I fired up the laptop to catch up…

Last week’s vacation was primarily at Disney World. Thanks to a long-ago recommendation from Ernie, Robin and I knew about the villas on property at Disney — part of the Disney Vacation Club (Disney’s time-share system), they’re available to guests when space permits. We each ended up staying in 2 bedroom villas, which gave us…

Nearly a week since my last post! Sulking over my election loss? Hardly… (And thanks to all who sent kind words and posted on their sites, I’ll be following up soon with personal thanks.) Just got back from a week in Florida where I was helping my parents celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary. In attendance…

I’m writing this from my phone, so I’ll keep it brief: the results are in, and it looks like the Republican slate has been elected to serve Naperville Township. To Mr. Vician, Ms. Yurgaitis, Mr. Spitzzeri, and Ms. Busche. I look forward to their service and hope they serve our Township well. I’m disappoointed in…

Very exciting news: the Naperville Sun endorsed just two candidates for Township Trustee in today’s paper, and I’m one of the two. If you live in the township, please remember to vote!