I've been planning for a few years now to set up my main site for this here domain kenhester.com with Ruby on Rails and my own home web server. But WordPress has been great for my blog subdomain. Frankly, other people (WordPress) are better web designers than me. Moreover, the pain of setting up Postgresql …
Lieutenant Starbuck as an Old Man, Part 1: Remembering Boomer
Why, it must have been nigh-on 40 yahren ago, me and Boomer flew out to this space joint to try to meet some girls. When you're that age, you're interested in mating, you know, although you don't think of it as mating. Why are we driven to mate?... Propagate the species, I guess. I mean, …
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Abducted by Aliens
Cover Song – Because
Here is my cover of The Beatles' "Because." I'm doing all instruments and vocals. Kenneth Hester - BecauseWords and music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney I'm not doing this for any commercial purpose, just a recital.
Dystopian Taco Joint
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. – John 8:31–32 * * * Beside the screaming freeway, you see him. Fire for hair. Flaming eyes. Fire for a mouth. Fire for everything. Fire is fitting for this …
Quatie
I'm just glad to be here, happy to be alive. I discovered through Ancestry.com (if their "hints" are correct, and if my acceptance of various hints is correct) that I have some Cherokee ancestry. Going back seven generations, there is a woman—Elizabeth "Quatie" Brown, later Elizabeth Henley, later Elizabeth Ross—my fifth great-grandmother. "Quatie" is apparently …
Space Elevator
This World Has Lost Its GloryNosehair and I have started building a space elevator out behind the apartment. The trees give us pretty good cover, from the sun and park visitors and vandals and such, and we've really made some good progress.A space elevator is a device consisting in part of a cable, or tether, …
I Went Down to Mexico
I will tell you this one thing. One Sunday a while back, my pet elephant Nosehair and I were sitting around, watching football—the usual, nothing special, I think it was Pats vs. Jets (Pats had the early lead)—and suddenly Nosehair looked up from his tablet and said, “We’re going to Mexico.” Nosehair has been reading …
Say Hello to Nosehair
I have a pet elephant. His name is Nosehair. He’s a male adolescent, past puberty, but, in my opinion, a long way from adulthood. I’d love to post a picture of him, but he won’t let me. He’s very shy. Sometimes I can’t get him to leave the apartment. I wonder sometimes if he was …