I don’t usually put images in Thursday miscellanea posts, but an exception is in order. My mother died ten years ago yesterday, and my sister Jenny found and scanned this fantastic image of Mom at 3 or 4, standing in front of my grandfather’s Ford. I look at photos like that and try harder … Read more
What a delicious story from our friends in Australia (hat tip, Dad): I find a lot of the concerns people have about meatpacking and processing fairly silly, but this is more than a little unsettling, don’t you think?
This computer has been dead for just about nine months. Best I could tell from deciphering its startup wailing, and a quick diagnostic to eliminate the power supply, it was the motherboard. Best as I could also tell, there wasn’t much financial point in trying to fix it. So I’ve been limping along on my … Read more