I've posted this chart several times before.  Now that the census jobs have all basically disappeared, you can see that (measured by job...

For the last couple of nights, I've been a bachelor again – Debbie is 70 miles away, taking care of a friend who's recovering from k...

I wish I could take some pictures for you, but it's kinda dark right now.  Last night when I got home from work, I could see that Chris ...

I've blogged about Dave and the guys at Rancho Jamul Auto Care before .  We've been taking all our vehicles there now for several ye...

Via Doug S., this story that involves two of my colleagues from work (at Service-now.com).  Millar Ranch Road is a rural road in East San Di...

...the earth stood still, stopped rotating?  Fascinating , but I'm sure glad it's not going to happen!

Is Oracle.  Through their recent purchase of Sun Microsystems they acquired ownership of the Java programming language.  Google uses a varia...

If you read this blog, then you already know that I'm no fan of the unions.  The report below covers a recent flap wherein the teachers...

One in eight children born in the U.S. are the progeny of illegal immigrants. ..

The mind boggles.  Artist Dalton Ghetti, in Connecticut, sculpts teensy tiny little things on the tips of pencils .  I'd have to have a ...

An outstanding long article by Jeffrey Goldberg in Atlantic on the situation in the Middle East, mainly Iran vs. Israel.  There's far ...

My start this morning was a half-hour or so later than usual, so I didn't get outside with the dogs until nearly 4 am.  By that late hou...

Via APOD , of course. Here in Lawson Valley, we occasionally get nice displays of such rays at sunrise.  In our case, they're caused b...

Lakes Entertainment has released their 2010 Q2 results .  The Jamul Casino project is mentioned in the same way as the last few reports – th...

If you use Wikipedia, you need to listen to this.  Beautiful!

I've no idea whether this is serious or not .

There was a time, not so very long ago, when a boss or owner could speak his mind plainly to his employees.  Shaun Usher at Letters of Note ...

This sequence of photos was emailed to her boss – and all her colleagues – by a girl announcing that she was quitting her job.  I can only ...

Well, painlessly for the taxpayer, anyway.  As Byron York points out, taxpayer savings of $40B to $47B annually could be generated simply b...