Several readers have written me, wondering why I'm not weighing in on this.  Basically it's because I have little to contribute to t...

Lots of information from someone who appears to be unusually well-informed about the subject...

I'm pretty sure it's the best I've ever seen...

That's the promise of this site .  Haven't tried it myself yet...

...and it says, basically, they're BS.  See here and here for analysis; the study itself is here (PDF). Now if we could only get go...

Interesting talk:

This surprised me .  Click to enlarge, and study it for a little while – I'll bet you'll find some surprises too...

Check it out .

This morning's dog walk marks the first time this summer that I've been able to see my old friend Orion in the early morning.  Head...

Here's a snapshot of the fascia and soffits going up on our house.  The drip edge that sticks out a little isn't quite finished yet ...

The condensed version, via reader Jim M.: Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on d...

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. ..