Paradise ponders, eyeball pressures and drained batteries edition...   But first: I stand accused of being an idiot, something I suspect i...

Adjective order...   Several times this past few years I've run across a discussion of this topic, but I don't remember doing so bef...

Paradise ponders, “My Ding-a-ling”  and “Oopsie!” edition...   I'm listening to Chuck Berry as I write today's post.  So sad that he...

Paradise ponders, redwood “flour” and raging river edition...   Yesterday I sanded the rest of one side of the largest redwood slab I made (...

This ain't yo' momma's belt sander!   I tried out my new belt sander for the first time this morning.  Wow!  It's been ne...

Expensive punctuation...   Consider this sentence, lifted from a Maine state law: The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, m...

Paradise ponders, where the hell did that day go edition...   Yesterday I was scrambling all day long.  I was feeling a bit off (and I am to...

Non-standard addressing...   This blog post by national geek treasure Ken Shirriff details how the Intel 8008 designers saved a few then-pr...

Doom.  I feel the doom coming on...

Paradise ponders, puppy birthdays and irrational numbers...   Today (3/14/2017) is the first birthday of Mako and Cabo, our little field s...

Paradise ponders, acidic wood and big hunks of redwood edition...   Yesterday I got a bit of a scare: I discovered that wood I'd left ...

Another sign that spring is springing...   The past week's production from our solar panels.  We had many weeks of zero production recen...

USPS fail and medical care...   No surprise in a USPS fail, right? For years now we've routinely tracked the progress of packages ship...

Paradise ponders, superstar mutts edition...   So I took a few quick photos of Mako and Cabo to assuage the demon readers who are pestering ...

The crazy is taking over the world, part 88,372,119:

Paradise ponders, dowels and maple-nut bar edition...   A few days ago, Michelle H. (a friend who's a member of the LDS ward that we...

Fake news...   Remy weighs in...

Paradise ponders, howling dogs and red-winged blackbird edition...   Yesterday I was on the phone with Tesla several times – they were worki...

What's Elon done now?   Via still-stuck-in-San-Diego friend and reader Simon M.: I can fix South Australia's power network in 100 da...

Triggered memory ... of my “plantsman” dad...   Some of my favorite memories from the many trips I took with my dad are of our conversations...