Night Owl Cards

I have lots of post ideas. You would not believe how many. Lists. I have lists of post ideas. As you know, I have no time for these ideas. So there they sit, waiting for me to look at them and actually go out there and EXECUTE, as the football coaches say. What I need is a short-and-sweet post. But I'm not really good at that kind of post. So I'll try the quick-and-dirty post. "Quick and dirty" is a phrase used frequently by my 12th grade math teacher. He was an odd bird with all kinds of odd phrases. "Quick and dirty" was his way of teaching some simplified formula around whatever godforsaken, booby-trapped calculus problem that he was proposing. I was amused by the "dirty" part. I'd never heard "dirty" used before to mean "simplified but effective." I only knew dirty as "playing in mud puddles" or, um ... you know, that other thing. But I'm going to try the "quick and dirty" now. I...