Debbie and I traveled to northern Idaho in the first week of September.  As is my want (:-), I took a few photos along the way. First up...

Just a moment ago, as I was working away in my office, I heard a soft snoring start up behind me.  I turned around in my chair to find Lea, ...

Awesome!

There's a well-known “hack” that approximates an inverse square root (i.e., 1/x^0.5, or x^-0.5) with just a few adds, subtracts, a shift...

The inimitable Mark Steyn weighs in on the debacle in the Middle East.  An excerpt: But Hillary Clinton and Gen. Martin Dempsey are guilty...

Via my lovely bride, something that has been much on my mind recently (as I contemplate the outrageous taxes we're about to have stolen ...

Via my mom, these most excellent posters:

Via reader Simi L.: I'll say!

The Obama administration has taken some actions in the past days that should raise the hackles of every American.  Unfortunately, these acti...

Reader and friend Larry E. writes: Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “did not permit U.S. Marine guards to carry live ammunition,” accord...

Another geezer joke from my mom: Yesterday I had an appointment to see the urologist for a prostate exam. Of course I was a bit on edge be...

Via my mom.  Since my 60th birthday recently, she seems to have become an endless source of geezer jokes  :-) A little old lady went to th...

My dogs just don't know.  They don't know about the horrifying events in the Middle East.  They don't know about my work being c...

I've long known that the widely published “life expectancy” numbers are very misleading at best, and greatly understate the age the aver...

Headlines on this morning's news are all about the killing of our Ambassador to Libya, and three others.  The news reports are contradic...

Via my mom, who reminds me (as if I could forget!) that she's part Scottish: A London lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by...

A few weeks ago I posted the story of Victoria Arlen , a paralympic swimming competitor whose family is friends with Frankie T. (a colleague...

We got home late last night, greeted by four ecstatic dogs who fell all over themselves trying to say hello to us.  After a short night'...

We're up in Sandpoint, Idaho.  This morning we're headed out on the trail, doing a little hiking in the beautiful mixed conifer fore...