Many long-time residents of California (over 35 years for me) consider themselves very fortunate to live in this “Golden State”. But these ...

Recently our little Lawson Valley was connected to the terrestrial Internet through some clever wireless technology, from a little company c...

Interesting stuff . I'd never have guessed that humor would have such durability. An excerpt: Pride of place in the Philogelos goes to...

Via Brian Dunbar : A SQL query walks into a bar. He sees 2 tables, walks over and asks “May I join you?”

The cartoonists are catching on quickly to popular sentiment:

From my mom: A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced...

L yons Peak is a small but locally prominent peak just southeast of the town of Jamul (and just south of Lawson Valley, where I live). You ...

Well, I'm pretty sure the storm is now actually over. We got an additional 0.3 inches of rain yesterday that we didn't expect, as t...

By special request from Bob C. We've had about 1.35 inches today, and it's still raining now. The graph at right tells the story (r...

Reader Larry E., who's having a great deal of fun learning the elements of photography with his digital camera, sent in this photo of th...

That's what a dozen eggs cost in the early '50s, in inflation-adjusted dollars. This is from an interesting comparison of where ou...

The graph tells the story. As I write this, the sky is completely clear and a nearly-full moon is brightly lighting the nightscape. The wet...

A couple of interesting articles on the art of programming, here and here ...

Last Thursday afternoon the first edges of our current storm hit us, and ever since then it's been intermittently raining. So far our s...

Fantasic composite of 80 separate Hubble telescope images : NGC 4921 is one of the rare spirals in Coma, and a rather unusual one — it is an...

Laugh or cry? You decide...

Executive Summary : SDWISP is the real deal. If you need high-speed Internet access and you're within SDWISP's service area, call t...

Amazing !

The People's Cube pointed me to a collection of “ proverbs ” from IowaHawk – which the People's Cube then parodied . A few samples ...

From my sister-in-law Gina: I took my dad to the mall the other day to buy some new shoes. We decided to grab a bite at the food court. I ...