According to an O2 survey, employers think they are more flexible with work scheduling than employees do: O2 says that 75% of employees say they are most productive when they can change when and where they work, and 11% even… Continue Reading
So I’m watching TV tonight after work. I make it through a few episodes of the Daily Show. Then I’ve got several Bond movies and a couple episodes of The Americans that I’ll need to wait for Mrs. Likko to watch with… Continue Reading
Much as I’m irritated at the New York Times’ paywall* a throwaway line in this recent article about the same-sex marriage cases pending before the Supreme Court caught my interest so I spent one of my ten free articles a… Continue Reading
In law school, I was taught that to change someone’s behavior, you need to appeal to a very basic, very powerful emotion. And there is no more basic, no more powerful emotion, than fear. If you can scare someone enough,… Continue Reading
I have a question for y’all. Lain does not look overwhelmingly like Clancy or myself yet. She has my eyes, Clancy’s mouth, and we figure it’s all going to come down to the nose. Temperamentally, she appears to be taking… Continue Reading
About one-third of the men who served as President of the United States — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, James K. Polk, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Harry… Continue Reading
Technology: [T1] The Economist looks at the costs and benefits of air conditioning. If you read only one of these links, this is probably the one I would recommend. [T2] This is made more interesting as my smartphone word-predict tries… Continue Reading
Preamble: If you know anything about towing and trailer hitches, I could use your counsel. I need a hitch ball for my Forester because the towing package inexplicably did not come with one. The problem is that I can’t find… Continue Reading
Here is a tip: If you are getting a call from an unknown phone number that is a Utah area code (385, 801, or 435), there is a really good chance it is a telemarketer or pollster. Utah and Idaho… Continue Reading
In the Memphis Flyer, Chris Harrington writes about attempts to change the name of various parks named for the Confederacy. In it, he states: The parks issue is essentially a localized proxy war in a larger conflict over the past,… Continue Reading