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The PYC Manifesto

About PYC A good friend and college housemate brought us many tales of Sacramento and the Central Valley. But our absolute favorite was the tale of PYC. (I’m using initials to refer to him and his kids, rather than the full names, since there are other PYCs with web presences, and I’d rather not be [...]

Ray Downs, 1932–2009

Update: The Downs family now has a website up. Go to RayDowns.com for information on the memorial service and so on. Ray Downs was headmaster at ASIJ during my years there, and the one who signed my parents’ contracts to work at the school. He was the sort of administrator who had done his long [...]

WP Success

Finally got this place updated to the latest flavor of WordPress. I was tired of seeing that “you are in danger of being hacked by Ukranian credit-card thieves” note every time I logged in. More than that, though, I was tired of never being able to log in. This hosting company isn’t the best I [...]

Costume photos

Each year a bunch of us from the company (current and former) get together at the home of the person with the largest home for a Halloween party. Sometimes this is right around Halloween (this year it was a few days later, on Friday) and some years it’s much later. Once it was close to [...]

Book on the way

Next month it’ll be reading time. T. Miller’s book is on the way! From the looks of things it’ll be a paean to the wise stewardship our nation has enjoyed during this time of conflict. Yup. (Now with all improved, not so monstrously large image of book cover.)