Progress in Paradise...   Yesterday morning I managed to get myself almost completely covered with light grease.  This happened as I was u...

Those funny abbreviations weren't invented by kids for texting...   They were actually invented in the early 1900s, for use by telegraph...

“Even by his standards, Krugman's argument was lame.”   Now there's a sentence that brought a smile to my face!  Even better, it was...

Amazon Dash teardown...   We signed up for the Amazon Dash button a while back, but we haven't received any of them yet.  If you'...

The Beast of Turin runs ...   A 28 liter engine on a car that's over 100 years old, running again.  Via reader (and sadly, still a Cal...

The ascent of man...   These people are crazy!   Watching this makes me feel (however briefly) ... normal...

Buttons that do nothing...   An interesting article from the BBC about buttons and other controls that do absolutely nothing, but make peop...

Is it proper for women to be learned?   That's a question from an advice column of the 1690s .

Oh, the blue sunsets of Mars!   As seen by Curiosity , in the colors you'd see if you were there. I remember reading a science ficti...

The most successful scam evah!   I speak of the beauty industry , of course...

Integer overflow on BBC...   Interesting seeing a technical issue like this explained by non-technical people ...

Paradise perambulations...   Yesterday afternoon we had sunshine with a few clouds in the sky; temperature was a beautiful 63° and the roads...

Miki has a friend...  She's Annie, part of the Lawrence family.  We're giving her a little company each day as the Lawrences are ...

My mom asked for a photo of the barn ... and here it is, resplendent in its fresh paint and cleaned-and-sealed rock! Folks around here,...

The A-10 “Warthog” is the finest close air support aircraft ever built...   But it doesn't have the cachet the Air Force wants, nor is...

Paraprosdokians...   According to Wikipedia : A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or la...

More Carly Fiorina...   Via Doug S., Idaho mogul-of-everything...

Yes, cats would do this...

ScanSnap IX500 trick...   We've been paperless here for a few months now, thanks to our ScanSnap IX500 scanner and DEVONThink software ...

Morning walk...   I talked with my mom this morning (it's Mother's Day, you know!), checked the rain gauge (just 0.14" since ...