I’ve had a very odd weekend.

First, I’ve taken a dozen or so phone calls from concerned relatives and friends over this NYTimes article. But a bigger issue is that the Internet was down in the house starting late Friday night, so I haven’t been online much. On Saturday I called Comcast, my service provider, and a recorded system said it would be back up in 30 minutes. That never happened.

So I’ve been running around to various cafes and friend’s houses to steal bandwidth and try to be online at least a little. The best connection was at Keith Teare’s house, but I had to deal with a chicken roaming around his front yard (picture) and…