I caught the tail end of the President’s address from the Oval Office tonight on NPR as I drove home. It’s hard to believe that he’s been in office over a year and not before used this vehicle for communicating… Continue Reading
To commemorate Memorial Day this year, I spilled water into the keyboard of my laptop. I shall have to find a less expensive and more convenient way to commemorate America’s fallen heroes next year. For now, however, I will be… Continue Reading
From Scientific American, a rich interactive summary of pivotal plausible events such as a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India (guess what, we lose) and an asteroid impact. The graphics are cool and the fusion power article is, if a… Continue Reading
A volcano in Iceland, which last erupted for fourteen months straight and bears the utterly unpronounceable name Eyjafjallajokull, has begun erupting again, and scattered ash over most of Europe. Because this volcano’s ash contains a high silica compound, if it… Continue Reading
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about Ira Isaacs, the guy who makes astonishingly disgusting pornography and who still faces the potential of prosecution for the “crime” of obscenity after having made and distributed literally dozens of copies of such… Continue Reading
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged America to adopt a national goal of sending people to the Moon and bringing them safely back to Earth. Over the next eight years, many different parts of the government, and a lot… Continue Reading
I’m glad I don’t have a neighbor like Arthur Fristenberg. I use dimmer switches, cellular phones, laptop computers, and wireless internet routers too. Fortunately, my neighbors on the one side use all the same things, and my neighbor on my… Continue Reading
Writing this blog post entirely from the droid. Just a test, really. 1234. Seems to work better to edit HTML directly and keep all links out. But it can be done.
My cell phone has been crapping out on me too often recently — the battery drains in two days or less whether I make calls on the phone or not. So it was time to say goodbye and get a… Continue Reading
Why is it that over the past seven days or so, my computer has downloaded and automatically installed 1,429 updates? What are you all doing with the Vista OS? It’s starting to annoy me.