Paradise ponders...   Another busy day today!  First we went to see Debbie's doctor.  She's been having some pain in her knee, makin...

Paradise problem puzzled!   Yesterday I posted about the clock kit I was building, and how the prescaler had a problem that needed to be tro...

Heh!

“Why has this not been done before?”   Neoneocon asks a most pertinent question about the French bombing of Raqqa, Syria: Why on earth wa...

A shocking development...   MIT scientists have come up with a novel method for cleaning up water , including getting rid of the salt in sal...

Intel 4004...   This was the very first microprocessor, and it has a special place in my memory.  Today is the 44th anniversary of its ann...

Paradise ponders...   Just finished assembling the prescaler on my clock kit (photo at right).  It doesn't work :)  That's not sur...

Edumacayshun...   Oh, my.  This feels distressingly on point...

Our doctor in San Diego retired earlier than he'd planned to ... and ObamaCare was a contributing factor.  Anecdotally we've heard ...

Our government's ineffectiveness isn't just a recent phenomenon...   One of the best examples I can think of to illustrate this is t...

Do it now!   Friend, reader, and former colleague Simon M. passes along some excellent advice.  However, I think his advice is just a wee bi...

Like a dead bug on a windshield...   A delightful essay on the strangeness of English.  A teaser: Old English had the crazy genders we wo...

Inquiring minds want to know...   Well, at least one inquiring mind – and even that is assuming that you believe the readers of this blog h...

Paradise ponders...   Yesterday afternoon Debbie made stuffed peppers, using the peppers our neighbor Tim D. gave us.  Naturally, I had to t...

Paradise ponders, part II...   Well, I got to take my afternoon walk with Miki and Race.  Boy were they excited!  That first photo below sho...

Spawning salmon...   My neighbor Alan L. made this video of the kokanee salmon spawning this year in Cinnamon Creek (the creek feeding Por...

Paradise ponders...   Well, my tool storage issues have been completely solved.  Below you can see both of the cabinets I bought: one (oak) ...

A short history of NTDS...   Some of my readers may remember that when I was in the U.S. Navy ('71-'77), I was responsible for repai...

The truth about alcohol and fats...   Via my pistol-packing mama:

You know you're from California if...   My cousin Mike D. passed this along: So as not to be outdone by all the redneck, hillbilly, an...