Category: everything else

  • Come to the Shakespeare Reading!

    I’m hereby invoking the massive online presence that is joshhansen.net to spread the word about tomorrow’s MLK Day Shakespeare Reading for our Curiously Poetic Altoids poetry club. Here’s the announcement: Hi Altoid friends! Tomorrow is the blessed holiday of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, and in honor of its awesomeness we are going to have…

  • Newly Cursed 🙂

    Well, Kent and Dayna were so kind as to give me a ride to the airport this morning (Dayna was driving—thanks Dayna!) in spite of threatening weather. Kent (half-)joked that I was cursed, because every time he gives me a ride to the airport, I-15 ends up turning into a soupy, snowy quagmire. In fact,…

  • Automated Merger of GEDCOM Files

    Have you ever had the misfortune of having to merge two GEDCOM files while doing family history research? I hope not. It’€™s dehumanizing. Dehumanizing? Yes, because doing a job that should be done 99% by a machine is most definitely de-human-izing. Here’€™s a typical example: Billy Bob Jones and Suzy Lee Jones are a brother…