Punctuation can be important...   More examples of the importance of language “trivialities...”

“It looks really ancient!”   So declares a modern kid, upon being presented with a ... typewriter. They'd probably say that about me...

The last balls standing...   The nanny state vs. the balls ...

Barn: elevations...   Mere seconds after I posted the last entry, the barn builders showed up to “stake out” the barn and to take “elevation...

The barn begins!   A loader came out yesterday and scraped off a (roughly) foot of topsoil from the area where our new barn will be built....

Some new vacation posts are up...   I know, I know, I'm way late putting these up.  Here they are .

Clearly we need a continuous delivery system for ibuprofen...   Details here .

“...this is a case when that font of all quackery, New World Order conspiracy theories, and utter lunacy, NaturalNews.com, is less deluded t...

Hey!   Friend, reader, former colleague, owner of the largest car in the universe, and Idaho mogul-of-everything Doug S. passed this along...

Farmers are different...   Reader Jim M. passes this one along: When you're from the farm, your perception is a little bit different. ...

Windows vs. Ford...   Reader Simi L. passes this along, with this note: “Update of an oldie, but with some new additions.”  I never get tire...

Karsy's Giant Myriophone...   What had 2,000 strings, sounded like a string orchestra, but only required two musicians?  Why, Karsy...

When you have appalled Barney Frank ... then it's clearly time for you to change your behavior – radically!

The 11 types of programmers...   I was easily able to identify former colleagues for each of these types :)   I wonder where they would pla...

In defense of Zionism...   That's the title of an excellent piece in today's WSJ , by Michael Oren , former Israeli ambassador to th...

Breastfeeding in public...   This caught my eye because the incident described happened in Logan, Utah (just a few miles north of our new h...

NASA validates the “impossible thruster”?   A “thruster” is an engine that will cause a spacecraft to move.  Several readers sent me links...

“This may seem like a classic case of ivory tower navel gazing...”   Actually it seems to me more like a terribly overdue reality check.  Th...

Introverts Unite!   Sent along by friend, reader, and proud papa of two prodigies (one a Google Engineer, the other a golf champion) Simon...

“…and I want to thank you for being here.”   That quote will make sense when you watch this video (from whence the quote comes).  But plea...