Interesting look at population statistics

I came across this presentation about world population statistics. Something I would usually find pretty dry, but the presenter makes it pretty interesting:

(hat tip to this blog)

New weblog location

This is my first post at tomlog.wordpress.com. I just finished creating a new account and importing all my posts from typepad. I know I haven’t been giving this weblog thing a lot of attention, but I hope to change that and keep it more update with postings.

More Lilia

Pictures from Lilia this fall!

Lilia pics

John posted some more pictures of Lilia from this summer. 

Lilia is as cute as ever, but definitely getting pudgier too!

Denver photos

Yes, I know, I’ve been neglecting me blog again.  Well it’s my Fall resolution to be better. 

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to post for a while: photos from Denver

I went to Denver in June for my uncle Charles and aunt Janet’s fiftieth wedding anniversary.  It was a really nice celebration, and it was nice to see a little bit of Denver.

More Meena

another little video I made of Meena:

Meena-casting

Just a little video that I made of my cat Meena:

Go Ned Go!

A nice run-down on Ned Lamont in the Washington Post.  He’s challenging Joe Leibermann for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Connecticut.

You can donate to the cause here.

Galbraith’s passing

Sadly, John Kenneth Galbraith passed away over the weekend.  The Toronto Star had a nice article about him.  Not only having a varied and interesting life, he articulated ideas that continue to better describe the modern economy than many, more widely held theories. 

A book that I was recently reading, The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement, drew heavily on his ideas about the manufacturing of demand in the modern economy in the process of explaining how the internet and different forms of content and file sharing are disrupting the traditional economy.

Still here…

I’m sorry if you’ve been checking back to this site with any regularity. I haven’t been posting much over the last couple of months. I’m hoping to change that and post more regularly.

Actually I’m not sure if many people are out there or not, but even if this is just a ‘lone blog in the woods’, I still enjoy posting to it, laying out what has been going on in my life and trying to maybe make sense of it.

In case you haven’t heard through other means the main, sad thing that’s happened in my life is that Amelia and I have separated. It has been hard of course but even then I don’t think I have been the one who has endured the most pain in it.

I sometimes wish that I were a different person and that I could change my character to act a different way, but in the end I just seem to be myself and I think that eventually caught up with me.