Yesterday I noticed that my cell phone bill was higher than usual by about ten dollars, and so I called the company. It turned out that a fee for downloading some app had been charged to my account. The person … Continue reading →
Someone once asked me about what I actually do as a blogger, and I replied airily, “Oh, I just write a term paper a day.” It was meant to be a joke, but the joke wasn’t so very far from … Continue reading →
GRRRR! I am trying to decompress from dealing with some online “support” that is typical in that I suspect that, although it’s masquerading as a real live person with a real live first name, it’s actually a bot. I sent … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post.] Today is Mayday. As a child I was confused by the wildly differing associations the word conjures up. It’s a distress signal, for example, apparently derived from the French for “come … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I did my taxes by hand this year, as usual, and once again I began to wonder about halfway through why I do such a thing. Isn’t everyone just plugging numbers into a computer program these days, or using … Continue reading →
I saw this link at Instapundit: Man Buns: Proof Positive That Western Civilization Is Doomed. I thought it meant buns in the old-fashioned sense of butt. I imagined there must be some new men’s fashion that emphasized said area in … Continue reading →
I ordinarily get my news by reading. That’s not just a result of the internet or of my political change; it’s something that’s always been true of me. I’ve always found TV news to be too shallow, and I prefer … Continue reading →
I’ve already expressed my own experience with very low-carb diets, many times. Simply put: I can’t stand them and I lose very little weight on them, and what’s more they make me feel ill. If you say to me “but … Continue reading →
My great-grandfather holding my grandmother: My great-grandfather holding my mother: He died just a couple of years before I was born.
Continue reading →…and that’s been true for 28 years in a row. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love labs. They are generally so friendly and good with kids and just about anyone. But they are not my favorite breed, and I’d … Continue reading →
As you might imagine, I do a lot of searches on Google. Say what you will about Google’s politics, but I’ve long preferred it as a search engine. In the past, if you chose your search terms very carefully—and I … Continue reading →
…before they decide they’re not good for you again. That article, about the back-and-forth and back-and-forth on eggs and cardiovascular health, illustrates what’s wrong with most nutritional research in humans. Way too many uncontrolled variables. A reliance on self-reports. No … Continue reading →