I come by my love of gadgets and toys honestly, because my grandfather was a total junkie for such. When my grandmother died four years ago, one of the things we found in her stuff was this calculator that belonged to him. Meet the Kosmos I: the state of the art in analyzing your biorhythms … Read more
Heard about the pilot who got thrown off his own flight for using foul language while talking on his cell phone? Apparently he was having an “animated” conversation, including a few occurrences of words you can’t say on television. He was talking on the telephone, not to anyone present. He was having a bad day. … Read more
Nathan and Aaron went to an Easter egg hunt in my dad’s neighborhood this morning: They enjoyed themselves, but at hunt-time it was about 35 degrees with a biting north wind. That’s heavy-duty cold for Easter weekend ’round these parts; it ought to be 60, anyway. So the hunt was quick, and lunch at Dad … Read more