2008:

Power Plus: Try This At Home: What is the least amount of electricity you're consuming at any given time? The answer may shock you (har har). 06.29.2008

Is Nick Carr Making Us Stupid? Shorter me: Read the whole article without skimming. 06.17.2008

Power Plus: Armageddon It: A conservative talks conservation. 06.16.2008

Power Plus: The C Word: What will you do if and when gas prices reach $10/gallon? 05.31.2008

Power Plus: The future of energy production and consumption. A glimmer of it, anyway. 05.23.2008

Breaking News from Fantasyland: Any moment now, those coaching offers will pour in. Well, only if I get to be GM too! 04.21.2008

That Wasn't Thunder: Not the Big One, but still destructive. 04.11.2008

Opportunity Costs: China isn't the only place hosting a sporting event under a cloud of human rights abuses. 04.09.2008

2007:

2007: The Big Finish: Scrape, scrape, scrape... plate's clean. Hello, 2008! 12.31.2007

Flotsam: Various and sundry items for your late December reading pleasure. 12.24.2007

Airplineseatreclineology: Finally, a unifying theory of the human condition! 12.23.2007

Tao Te Ching: Axes to Grind: Beware those who divine what the Tao "wants". 12.12.2007

Snippets 12: Dot-com chutzpah, parentheses that ate New York, my ulterior motive for passively supporting the Patriots, and the men of scrapbooking. 12.10.2007

Tao Te Ching: Be the Change: A teaching moment. 12.05.2007

Tao Te Ching: Introduction and Observation: What might we infer about the otherwise unknowable Tao? First in an occasional series. 12.03.2007

Documenti Originali: Attempting to trace the origins of the Bible, among other things. 12.02.2007

Tagged: Ah, Memories: What's your earliest memory? 11.27.2007

Breatharianism at the Bookstore: When idealism and pragmatism collide. Now in paperback. 11.26.2007

Praying While the Sun Shines: These Bible-toters do not know their Bible. 11.17.2007

Reunion: Full Circle: It was real, it was fun, it was real fun! Photos inside, with more filler than a $2 ham. 11.14.2007

Why I'm Not a Paramedic: Let us be thankful for the choices we can and do make. Warning: Not for the squeamish. 10.30.2007

AGJC: You Gotta Wanna Not Want: The desire to be desireless. 10.29.2007

Songs I Like to Like: They're not all "guilty pleasures", but. 10.23.2007

That Ain't Music (Volume One): And I feel, time's a wasted go. Everybody...! 10.22.2007

Unsolicited Praise for the Big Ten Network: Did we really need another sports network? Heck yes! 10.18.2007

The Gaia Hypothesis: What it is, what it isn't, why you care, what you think, breathe in, breathe out... no, out... out! Guh! Someone call 911! 10.16.2007

Less Than One Per Cent: How dare you refute my scientific idol?! 10.15.2007

Fitness Update: Activating hibernation sequence. Sort of. 10.10.2007

Names, Narrative, and No Tomorrow: Or, why you're a sports fan. Even in small doses. 09.27.2007

Dream Toad Will Never Leave You: Because a yard full of house geckos isn't enough. 09.21.2007

Equal Opportunity Shopping: Just trying to show some love for the US Women's Soccer Team. Is that so wrong? 09.19.2007

Blinded By the Bewbs: Wondering aloud: Are all women sex objects first, and talented individuals second? Why? 09.16.2007

Fitness Update: TV goes on, TV goes off. And... break! 09.11.2007

Living the Dream: What the internet is for. 08.31.2007

The Mind of God: Now 30% more finite and knowable! 08.28.2007

Minimum Security Revisited: A second look at the politically extreme web comic. 08.21.2007

Fitness Update: Now walk it out, walk it out, walk it out... East side walk it out. West side walk it out. Insane numbers inside. 08.11.2007

Closure: Personal, but necessary. 08.01.2007

Enemies of the Future: Hint: We are all, in some small way, an "enemy" of someone else's ideal way of life. 07.31.2007

Snippets 11: Why I'm not starring on The Simpsons; idea problems; a work in progress; Beckham. 07.26.2007

Reunion: Then What Happened? The obligatory "where are they now" piece for this series. 07.25.2007

Differently Christian: I'm not exactly on the bandwagon, but here are some thoughts about Christianity that will surely be read with an open mind and will stimulate loads of thoughtful discussion. 07.13.2007

Fitness Update: A few times I've been 'round that track. Wait until you see the latest numbers! 07.12.2007

Reunion: Return to Marion Hills Elementary: Doing my best to chronicle those times before the building gives way to a Wal-Mart or something. 07.08.2007

Snippets 10: Pre-vacation housecleaning; best smack ever. 06.27.2007

Conversation, Community, and Credibility: An overview of three overused and underexamined buzzwords. 06.26.2007

No, I Don't Want to Sign Your Petition: It's official: I have political hand-wringing fatigue. 06.25.2007

Progress Report: Excuse me, sir, does exercise help you run faster, lift stronger, and jump higher? 06.03.2007

Impossible is Nothing: Some people rise to the strangest challenges. 06.01.2007

A Prayer: Let those with ears to hear and hearts to receive this prayer be comforted. 05.30.2007

AGJC: The Return of the King: Jesus never claimed to be the king of anything, so where does this label come from? 05.30.2007

Still Waiting for a Third Way: I get it, you're disgusted. So...? 05.28.2007

Reunion: Roll Call: If we do not recite these names, they will cease to exist. 05.24.2007

Yes, I Made Dietary Changes Too: But in my view, they aren't that big of a deal. They seem major from a distance, but moderation is the key. Details within. 05.07.2007

A Man Who Pedals: I've got your "eco drive" right here. Check out my hoopty! 05.05.2007

A Man Who Walks: Thus ends the third 30-day cycle. Fitness update with bonus weather report. 05.03.2007

I Hate to Say I Told You So: Remember that brewing environmental scandal I warned you about last year? Yeah, well, it happened. Surprise, surprise. 04.27.2007

Fitness Update: How has my exercise regimen been working for me? Details inside. 04.09.2007

10 Things I'm Old Enough to Remember: A fun meme for you nostalgia buffs. 04.07.2007

Questions and Answers: Food for thought, or poison pill? I just work here. 04.03.2007

Our HD Month: This is no time to convert to Taoism. Or read books for pleasure. What you need to know about HDTV. 04.02.2007

Life After the Unthinkable: How we create least, as viewed through the lens of the latest blogospheric rift. 03.29.2007

Heaven and Earth: A great many things are not as important as we believe them to be, including this web site. FYI. 03.25.2007

Strut That Stuff: How things are going on the exercise front. 03.20.2007

The Absolute Value of Zero: A little something for the Atheists. 03.13.2007

If We Chose Our Bodies Like I Agonize Over HDTV: Say what you want about the Cylons, but they use pre-fab construction and don't watch TV. (They do frequent coffee shops, however.) I'm beginning to root for the bad guys. 03.02.2007

AGJC: The Baubles of the Hour: Thoughts about materialism, and the choices we make every day. 02.26.2007

All Things Are Possible With the Right Soundtrack: I like to move it, move it. 02.23.2007

Libertarian Life: An idea whose time has come, I dare say. 02.20.2007

Snip-A-Doo-La! Rockin' and rollin' to a no-scalpel vasectomy. Stunt doctor, do not attempt. 02.17.2007

Deconstructing the Mozilla Manifesto: All of the nitpicking and twice the semantic arguments of those other tech writers. In HD where available. 02.15.2007

Sleepless: Thoughts that keep me from my rest. 02.12.2007

What Has Happened to Food in the USA? We've got to get ourselves back to the garden. Or so I'm told. 02.07.2007

Freedom and Profit: At what point does the expectation to be paid, let alone make a living plying one's craft become a sin? 02.02.2007

Through a Cathode Ray Tube, Darkly: Keeping up with all of the Neat Stuff on TV these days. 01.29.2007

Nintendo, Your Honor: As someone on the Salon.com forum once said, "excellent advice for the recipient, as well as its giver." Thoughts about goals versus intentions. 01.22.2007

Linux Reloaded: Life after The Crash. 01.22.2007

The First 30 Days: A week of tough love. 01.18.2007

A Sensation Uncomfortably Like Death: Can anyone save my hard drive? 01.16.2007

Breatharian Defined: My vote for 2007's Word of the Year. 01.12.2007

TUX Magazine and the Challenges of DIY Media: Amateur media ain't easy, even for the professionals. 01.11.2007

Veganism and the Connectedness of Literally Everything: Is it possible to achieve 100% Vegan purity? Would you want to? 01.09.2007

30 Days: What new thing can you do for a month? Ideas inside. 01.06.2007

Yes, You Can Linux Your Life: Thoughts about the One Laptop Per Child initiative. 01.04.2007

2006:

2006: The Big Finish: Lots of reading material to while away the hours until 2007. 12.29.2006

2006: The Year in Pictures, Part II: Ah, Chicago. 12.28.2006

2006: The Year in Pictures, Part I: That was the year that was, or the first half of it anyway. 12.27.2006

Pardon Our Dust: What a marvelous time for an upgrade. 12.24.2006

2006: The Year of the Penguin: I can't believe I've been "all in" with Linux for over a year. Er, in a good way. 12.23.2006

The Essentials: Democracy TV: How? How have you lived this long without Democracy TV? I know! 12.22.2006

In Infinity I Believe: Caution: Headache-inducing thoughts within. 12.21.2006

Passive Problem Solving is an Oxymoron: When the "system" fails us, who is to blame? 12.18.2006

Living On Video: Sure, it's all fun and games until someone makes a 100mb MPEG movie. 12.11.2006

Snippets 9: The post-holiday edition. 11.29.2006

A Walk Down Memory Lane - On Sesame Street: Way more nostalgia than you can shake a stick at. But why would you want to do that? Get in here! 11.16.2006

Election 2006: Day After Hangover Edition: Nothing like spin doctoring election results. Peel the onion! 11.08.2006

Wanted: A Third Way: Thoughts beyond tomorrow's US mid-term elections. 11.06.2006

Election 2006: Write In Ollie Garchy! We all get the government we deserve. Some more than others. 10.30.2006

Arguing for My Limitations: The PBW eBook Challenge is go, but not for me. 10.30.2006

We Call Them Street Meat: Cold reality for the B-list pundit crowd. 10.20.2006

US Senate Debate: Texas 2006: Finally, fire, fight, and substance! Oh, and two other candidates. 10.20.2006

They Call It Easy Money: How to get rich by blogging, or not. 10.15.2006

Remember, Remember, the Seventh of November: My analysis of the 2006 Texas Gubernatorial race. 10.09.2006

Assorted Flotsam: Guilty as not charged, the CEO marketer, guys under the (range) hood, spam woes. 10.05.2006

Flash: Life Still Too Short for Petty BS: A lesson in dying. 10.02.2006

Is Work a Force That Gives Us Meaning? Point, counterpoint. 09.25.2006

The PT Barnum Approach to Wine: Suckers wanted. 09.22.2006

A Blank Slate, and a Barrel of Crabs: The internet as blessing and curse. Or is that human nature itself? 09.18.2006

Snippets 8: PBW e-Book Challenge is Go, finding the plot, looking for Wisconsin, wine with turkey, and getting more out of your Fuji digital camera. 09.14.2006

This Terror Business: Follow-up thoughts regarding my 9/11 anniversary article. 09.12.2006

Wound, Revisited: New and improved thoughts on the subject of transgendering. 09.12.2006

Five Years Later: Looking back in anger, and ahead with trepidation. 09.11.2006

Advertising: The Imagination Killer: Think differently, when it suits us. 09.10.2006

Practical Advice for the Budding Wine Enthusiast: Nuff said. 09.08.2006

Steve Johnson, Number 57: My famous cousin. I'm available for video montage interview snippets as needed. 09.06.2006

On Vacation: Eavesdropping at Gander Mountain: Bad things happen when I am free to notice things. 09.05.2006

Out of the Box Functionality: Think outside the blog. 08.31.2006

We will Be Judged By Our Actions: Three tales of deeds vs words. 08.30.2006

Design Update: What's happening to and with ethmar.com. 08.28.2006

HTML vs CSS Layout SMACKDOWN: Needless markup. 08.24.2006

The Compleat A-List: If you only link to one article today, this is the one. Reading it is optional. 08.22.2006

Please Return Your Expectations to Their Original Neutral Position: Read entire: Against the madness of crowds. 08.21.2006

Beliefs About Reality: The case against a maxim-based existence. 08.21.2006

I Write Because I Must, and I'm Not Shutting Up: For those times when I ever find myself asking "why bother?" 08.20.2006

FugIT Conference Recap: Any one who disses it totally wasn't there. 08.16.2006

Influence and Affluence: The rise and fall of the social internet. 08.16.2006

Grokking Netflix: OK, officially everyone in the USA uses Netflix. But if that is baseless hyperbole, here's what you need to know. 08.10.2006

The Land of Plenty: Thoughts about Immigration and Outsourcing. 08.04.2006

Chateau Aux Arc Winery Podcast: An interview I conducted in March 2005 for the now-defunct Vision Thing blog. 08.03.2006

Far Vision: Three items that look to the future and in turn affect the present. 08.02.2006

Naked Hippies in the Mud: Thoughts about BlogHer 2006. 08.01.2006

I Hate the Food I Eat: Hair-raising discoveries at the grocery store. 07.31.2006

At a Table Before My Enemies: Looking back on some old rivalries. 07.28.2006

Ethmar.com is Not a Blog: A friendly reminder. 07.27.2006

Retrograde: Where astrology and free will meet. 07.24.2006

BSG: The First Sound is AUM: Exploring the Battlestar Galactica intro theme music. 07.18.2006

Zeroing Out the Board: The fallacy of binary thinking. 07.17.2006

What's the Plan? Thoughts about progressive goals and achievements versus "doing stuff". 07.14.2006

All of Your Internet Scandals Are Meaningless: AOL Keyword: Rocketboom. 07.11.2006

Meditation II: Falling well short of the Infinite. 07.10.2006

Greenwald vs Horowitz: Audio of the recent debate on the Alan Colmes Show. 07.09.2006

Toward a More Libertarian Union (Or Not): How sympatico are you with Libertarianism? 07.07.2006

Time to Live: Why are you here? 07.06.2006

Meditation I: The certainty with which one speaks of the intangible. 06.28.2006

Life Lessons From the Free-Throw Line: Brick, airball, brick, brick. Is my character built yet? 06.27.2006

Anti-Matter: How a snarky web promo can backfire miserably. 06.26.2006

Ducks, Bunnies, and Foxes: Three web comics explored. 06.25.2006

Faith and Works: More on the symbolic nature of reality. 06.23.2006

The Wall in the Head: On illegal immigration. 06.22.2006

Re-Pete Revisited: To Engage or Ignore: And then there's a third way. 06.21.2006

Pete and Re-Pete: How about some actual discourse for a change? 06.19.2006

The Man is Stick-Resistant: More than you ever wanted to know about alternative energy. 06.16.2006

Science and Anti-Science: The battle rages on. Some thoughts about floaty new-agers and snarky skeptics. 06.14.2006

Represent! Thinking about the symbolic nature of reality. 06.13.2006

The Road to Burnout City: Causes of, and remedies for. 06.10.2006

Un-Zeep: It's as silly as it sounds. 06.09.2006

Alive and Kicking: Earth: 2. Rogue Comets and Anti-Christ: 0. And the year isn't half-over yet. 06.08.2006

Wagon: The BPM rant you've all been waiting for. 06.07.2006

The Kindness of Strangers: Times go bad, times go rough - but why? 06.06.2006

Snippets 7: Behind the scenes of my wine reviews, what happens when you order a highball, Linux nerdiness, and a passing appreciation for the Mavs. 06.02.2006

On the Nature of God: Serious musings, man. 05.31.2006

Seeders and Leeches: More crazy, crazy talk about alternative energy. 05.30.2006

Wind, Solar, and Hot Air: Trying to go "green" in Texas. Trying. 05.28.2006

Who Wants a Spoiler? I'm hearing this article introduces a guest author, Jacques, who uses the word "goes" instead of "says". 05.27.2006

At the End of All Things: This could be my last article ever, if the latest crop of "doomsday enthusiasts" are correct in their dire predictions. 05.24.2006

AGJC: Of Graven Images: What's a little idolatry between friends? 05.23.2006

Someone Had to Say It: On speaking truth to power. 05.22.2006

Of This I Dream: Who will forgive us for our transgressions? 05.18.2006

Talking About, Not With: Racism calling on line one! 05.17.2006

A# (A Sharp): Deep thoughts that keep us from our rest. 05.16.2006

There is No Evil: But there is ignorance. 05.15.2006

AGJC: The Cross: Thoughts about the symbolism of the cross. 05.09.2006

Bird Burnout: More journeys of unbecoming. 05.07.2006

Friday Musings: Freestylin'! R-R-Random! 05.05.2006

AGJC: The Choice: Initial thoughts after re-reading The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ. 05.04.2006

BSG: Freeing the Mini Series: Rabid evangelism waits for no-one! 05.02.2006

BSG: Mirror: Some thoughts about the new Battlestar Galactica series. 04.28.2006

Here's What You Think: I wouldn't click on this link, but you can if you want to. 04.27.2006

The (Un)Readiness is All: Is searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life the best use of our time? And heavier stuff. 04.25.2006

Green Tea SMACKDOWN: Five teas, five days, ten tastings. Think all green teas are the same? 04.21.2006

15 Minutes: Just going for a walk. 04.18.2006

Canadian Seafood Boycott: It's happening now. Here's why, and why it's just the beginning of your life as an activist. 04.14.2006

Wound: Working through my thoughts on the topic of transgendering. 04.11.2006

Can I Linux My Life? Putting the "fun" in "fungible". 04.10.2006

For Consideration, Not Debate: Why you don't always get to comment on what we write. 04.07.2006

Unlisted: I am what I am. 04.04.2006

Blogging ROI: How Do You Know? It can be measured, the question is how. 04.03.2006

Wine Service Observations: Hint: Wine is not orange juice. 04.03.2006

Public Nakedness: Why is it so surprising that public communication attracts a public response? 03.29.2006

Bridge: There's a new radio station in town. I'm paying attention. 03.28.2006

Who Are You Going to Please With That Thing? Why I bother writing anything for the web. 03.27.2006

Troubleshooting is Subtractive: Why isn't anything selling in our office vending machine? 03.24.2006

Making Up for Lost Time: At last, the prodigal author returns! 03.21.2006

2005:

Cork and Fork: Not so much where I have been lately, but what. 01.02.2005

2004:

The Mighty Wurlitzer: I wrote a letter to Time magazine. Here's why. 07.06.2004

Snippets 6: Songs you like for no good reason, history lesson, why [NFL] football rules, fad dieting. 06.18.2004

Snippets 5: Verbiage makes the world go 'round, picking the Democratic presidental candidate, uses for basmati rice. 01.28.2004

2003:

On Martyrdom: Musings on the post-9/11 bloodlust. 03.21.2003

Ralph Nader: Why he's not getting my vote. 03.08.2003

Keep Your Pants On: How not to influence policy, if not public opinion. 01.15.2003

2002:

Three Observations: "Free" car washes, Ann Coulter, what they sell at the grocery store. 09.02.2002

Snippets 4: Ethan's parents come to town, HGTV, finding my way in the kitchen, losing at craps. 07.28.2002

Snippets 3: Central Market opens in Plano, what's on the Food Network, sprucing up our home, (m)eagerly. 04.21.2002

Scenes From a Business Trip: Wait until you see how much gas prices were back then. 02.03.2002

2001:

Fear: Post 9/11 fallout. 09.15.2001

Small Stories: My immediate reaction to 9/11. 09.11.2001

DeeVeeDee: Trading up is hard to do. 04.01.2001

Snippets 2: Buzz, and not "getting it": DVD and Krispy Kreme. 03.13.2001

My 1994 Journal: Portrait of the artist as an angry young man. 03.09.2001

Snippets: A suggestion for the hotel industry, and my dogs are terrible tornado lookouts. 02.25.2001

2000:

Lego Club: Too much is never enough. 12.02.2000

Real Love: WWJD, indeed. 11.18.2000

Day One: Scenes from my first business trip. 11.11.2000

In These Things, I Believe: The internet as a metaphor for God and the Universe. 09.16.2000

On Extremism: Has it ever improved anything, really? 09.16.2000

Breakfast At Lucky's: Confronting my oblivious worldview over toast. 08.26.2000

Is Customer Service Dead?: You get what you pay for, if you pay for it. 08.21.2000

The End of Fast Company: I stopped backing that horse long ago, Here's why. 08.19.2000

Jeanne and Jeff's Engagement: When Jeanne met Jeff. A love story. 07.29.2000