I don’t usually post two days in a row, but I often post to sound off about something that’s gotten by dander up, and that’s what’s happening today. There’s a situation I just have to correct. The news reports I’ve been hearing all morning about Curiosity’s landing on Mars have all said, “The probe entered [...]
When cleaning out the kitchen of a vacation house last week, we came across a seriously nasty bottle of ketchup. The space between the bottle and the top was filled with crusty black crud, and my daughter was “totally grossed out” by it. Ironically, this is the same girl who loves to set her marshmallows [...]
As I write this, the 2012 Tour de France is winding to a close on the streets of Paris. I’ve written two posts on the Tour in previous years, and I was going to let it pass uncommented-upon this time. But something happened last Sunday — after I’d already written last weekend’s post — that [...]
My house was built in 1870. (No, I’m not that old. I moved into it several decades after that, thank you very much.) And believe it or not, that’s all you need to know to figure out that it’s a firetrap. On the other hand, if your house is less than maybe 70 or 80 [...]
When I was two or three years old, my parents and I were driving up to visit my grandparents at their summer cottage (which is now [partly] my summer cottage, and which is where I’m writing this post, which is why I thought of this topic (which will become more interesting and less about me [...]
There was something I was going to write about, but I can’t remember what it was. So we saw an ad for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter the other day. It looks like fun, but I haven’t seen any reviews yet. One thing I noticed, though, was that
I had been planning to write a nice, long post about time zones (sounds fascinating, huh?) with plenty of cool maps and funny jokes. But so many of you* sent me e-mails asking about a certain aspect of last weekend’s post that I decided to devote this weekend’s post to the answer. * “so many” [...]
I had been planning to write a nice, long post about time zones (sounds fascinating, huh?) with plenty of cool maps and funny jokes. But last weekend was Memorial Day, plus I’m feeling kinda sick again (no worries, just a cold), plus the dog ate my admin password, plus I didn’t feel like it. And [...]
NOTE: This post was originally written on Memorial Day, 2011, but the photos are from 2012. New posts will return next weekend. Once again, I’m typing this post on a plane. I’d thought that buying tickets for Memorial Day was a brilliant idea that would guarantee us a half-filled plane and maybe room enough to [...]
I had been planning to write a nice, long post about time zones (sounds fascinating, huh?) with plenty of cool maps and funny jokes. But last weekend was Mother’s Day, plus I had classes to teach on Saturday and Sunday, plus I got sick (no worries, just a cold), plus the dog ate my admin [...]
