A Wandering Eyre

I have an Alienware laptop that I love. I mean I really love this laptop. Her name is Inara (not Vera, sorry, Jayne!) I think geeks feel about their computers the way some people feel about cars. Seriously, Mr. Rochester just built a computer, which we dubbed Nightcrawler (we have decided to go with an [...]

Last week something happened that did not make big news, but it should have.
Timothy Vernor, an eBay vendor, won a court case in the state of Washington against Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD.
Verner was selling used versions, not copies, of AutoCAD in his eBay store. Autodesk contended that because software is licensed by users [...]

You have a serious debate with your husband over what order is the proper viewing order for Star Wars when it is time to introduce them to your children.
Do you go with the traditional viewing, Episodes 4,5,6,1,2,3?
Do you show them chronology and run the risk of the special effects of the newer ones shadowing the [...]

This has been a very different and interesting conference for me due to Mr. R and the Wee Bairn being with me in Chicago. I am very happy to have them here. In fact, I am certain that I would have been miserable without them.
Having them here has meant that I act more my age. [...]

In an effort to get ready for ALA, I turned on the Twitter widget that creates a post from my daily Tweets. Sadly, it went a bit haywire. I will try to fix it today, but there may be another strange post tomorrow.
The rumors are true. I am bringing Mr. Rochester and Baby Rochester aka [...]

Mr. Rochester is a picky reader in the sense that there are just very few things he wants to read bad enough to actually read them. He finds reading a bit boring.
I know at this point you are wondering why I married him, especially after he locked his first wife in the attic (she [...]

A cautionary tale of how a family full of geeks can carry a thing too far.
On Saturday, my family got together to see the new Star Trek movie, eat homemade pizza, an enjoy the good company. Well, we really just wanted to talk about how cute our babies are, but who can blame us?
Star Trek [...]

It has been a banner year for thankfulness at the Rochester household. Some things I am thankful for are simple and some are more dear, more complex. Here is a list of things this year has brought me.
Good coffee with real cream – My mother-in-law always drinks real cream in her coffee, and after [...]

Dear, lovely, readers, it has been a sad, sad past few weeks for Jane. I have been without the Internet and Cable since the hurricane. This would normally be a trial, but since I also stay home full time, I feel like I have been stranded on some hellish island in which I only have [...]

Ike is on his way and we are in the (cue ominous music) Cone of Uncertainty!!!!!!
I think this is a crazy name for the situation in which your house may or may not be battered by wind, rain, tornadoes, and storm surge, but I do not have a better label. The problem with uncertainty is [...]