Easy E-mail Encryption

For those seeking to work on their tin-foil hat I’d like to recommend an extremely easy way to keep cyber crooks, the [insert your government’s eSpy agency here], or Google from reading your emails. Simply go to mailvelope.com and follow the documentation to set up the Mailvelope plugin. The process basically involves creating your own… Continue reading Easy E-mail Encryption

Visiting Moscow

I recently got to go to Moscow for a conference and it fully delivered on gorgeous yellow (birch or oak mostly) forests, cold, snow, and massive malls which made me tell a friend, ya’ll are great capitalists. Click to browse and see info on the photos and don’t miss the video. Changing of the guard,… Continue reading Visiting Moscow

God is great, just cause we get strawberries, then raspberries, then blackberries all spring-summer long. Such a delightful succession.

It’s nice to be able to borrow a car for a while, but it makes you really think about when a car is most handy. It doesn’t do much for the commute, sure it’d be shorter, but then I’d have to deal with traffic. It’s best for when you want to go about a mile to pick something up from a friend but don’t want to walk or wait for public transit. Also for getting out of town and jumping in a lake.

Mira’s first 3 months

Today is Mira’s 3 month birthday. This seems like a significant milestone to me for some reason… though it’s possibly just because of the way they size baby clothes. Here are some of my favorite pictures of her at 1 month, 2 months and 3 months though. With a bonus 2 month thrown in because… Continue reading Mira’s first 3 months

Flags; or, The Russian perspective on Marriage & Family

So there’s been a lot of craziness about flags lately, Doug Wilson astutely pointed out how ironic it was everybody decided to hate on the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virgina (Confederate) just before the Supreme Court decided to sodomize states’ rights. Now I haven’t commented on any of that cause plenty of… Continue reading Flags; or, The Russian perspective on Marriage & Family

Quick praise, I was exceedingly frustrated with paperwork yesterday, but today our trip to the embassy for Mira’s passport & etc was smooth & easy. Then we had a pretty easy trip to the hospital for our itemized bill which our insurance needed.