Pad thai noodles are a favorite of mine.  I think of them as quintessentially Thai food, and I've rarely met one that I didn't like....

Don't blame me!  Blame my mom – she sent this to me!

Looks pretty handy if you're a JavaScript jockey...

Via my lovely bride (click to enlarge):

Via reader Jim M.: The Sierra Club and the U. S. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to the Wyoming ranchers for controlling t...

Via reader Jim M.: A guy stopped at a local gas station, and after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood b...

Via my mom.  Yes, I grew up in this sort of home... Ole was hunting geese up in the Varden Lake region of Sweden. He leaned the old 16 gau...

Via my lovely bride (and fellow dog lover):

Via my lovely bride: I am a sick old man! I was sick and in the hospital. There was one nurse that just drove me crazy. Every time sh...

Just a random collection of photos from today's travels, mainly on the western face and North Peak of Cuyamaca Mountain.  I'll bet t...

I laughed my ass off!

I just like this photo:

For the non-geeks amongst my readers: “UX” is the currently popular abbreviation for “User Experience”, and denotes an engineer whose focus ...

What is it?  It looks metallic.  The mission scientists don't know yet what it is, other than weird .  But they're working on it ......

I suggest something soft and cushiony directly under your jaw, to catch it when it drops: The product's web site ...

The lead on this WSJ ($) article pretty much sums it up : Well, that didn't take long. The pension reforms that California Governor Je...

If you've been tracking the debate on the sun's influence on climate, then you know that (somewhat counter-intuitively) the sun'...

Go see ...

A take-off on the Paul Harvey SuperBowl ad:

My readers on the East Coast or in colder regions of the world should feel perfectly free to laugh at us.  But...we're having a rare epi...