Clarksville, Arkansas...   That's where I am tonight.  I just got back from a satisfying dinner at an Italian restaurant right next to...

Ponders from the road...   I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, tonight.  I just took a left turn :) Yesterday afternoon, Debbie and I dr...

Slow blogging alert!  I'm off early tomorrow morning on my grand road trip adventure.  I'll be picking up my brother Scott and his ...

Pleasant nerdly surprises in Paradise...   So I was troubleshooting my solar panel installation this morning, to see if I could figure out w...

Icicles in the moonlight...   Quite beautiful, they are.  Unfortunately my camera couldn't capture it in such dim light...

Paradise ponders...   That bowl of luscious-looking soup at right is Debbie's homemade tlapeno (Mexican chicken soup), moments before I...

Paragraphs like this ... are why I love The Daily Shot , Ricochet's daily email: Also for the record, Alan Grayson is from the Bronx,...

A bit of perspective...   Petrophysicist Andy May has published an updated version of his timeline showing climate and human civilizatio...

Not a happy read...   A former U.S. nuclear missile launch control officer believes that we're at risk of an inadvertent nuclear war wit...

“…destroyed its soul.”  If Britain's socialist trends herald the U.S.'s ... then this is what we have to look forward to: The fac...

The Paris climate “talks” this week are a total waste...   Just looking at the roster of attendees is enough to infer that, but James Deling...

Finished, but non-working clocks in Paradise (and some other thoughts)...   Well, I've installed the last component in that clock kit.  ...

Icicles in Paradise...   Conditions are apparently just about perfect for icicle formation.  It's clear, but quite cold (just 9°F when...

Paradise ponders...   Another stage of the clock is done: the tens-of-minutes digit.  This time it did not work when I fired it up.  Yay!  ...

Paradise ponders...   Right now we are mostly pondering the weather, which has turned snowy with no warning at all.  When we went to bed l...

Paradise ponders...   There's a 26" long icicle outside our office window right now.  Sunshine on our dark grey roof is melting a...

Black Friday in Paradise...   It will be great!  It will be ... exactly like every other Friday in Paradise :) We are participating in exa...

Paradise ponders, part II...   Now with photos! That stock pot at right is what we brined our turkey in, and that's what it looked lik...

Paradise ponders...   On a Thanksgiving Day morning.  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We've got about 3" of snow on the ground, a...

If you are ... a PCA (Programmer of a Certain Age), then you'll no doubt remember – and fondly – the HP-16C “Computer Scientist” cal...