Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

We went to cheer for our friend, "Q", at about the halfway point of the Rochester Marathon this morning. The first video clip is the lead group at halfway. The runner who was in second place at this point went on to win. Not surprising.

The things a day of Ingress play will bring to my attention: Heading out this morning, to clean the green out of the neighborhood. There's a girl sprawled on porch roof of her house, lying on her stomach, talking to a friend just inside the second…

Well, that's what Joseph Silva, a spokesman for Stockton, California’s police department, had to say about why a teenager who was jaywalking - yes, jaywalking - had to be beaten into submission by nine - yes, nine - Stockton police officers. The first officer outweighed the…

Yesterday I wrote a note about Ahmed Mohamed, this 14-year-old kid, who built a digital clock and got arrested for his trouble. The Irving, TX police somehow retained enough instinct of self-preservation not to file any charges after all, but Ahmed remained suspended from school…

Here you can read the story of how 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed got arrested for being a geek. Well, he was also being Muslim, brown and in Texas, so really, being a geek was probably not required. Ahmed made a digital clock and brought it to school…