Winter temperatures are definitely here. I enjoy the convenience of purchasing refrigerated groceries at lunch and being able to leave them in the car, which has been an option on more than one day recently. I am happy to see Alabama in the playoff, and especially happy to see it come in such satisfying—if nerve-racking—fashion. … Read more
Meghan Trainor did the halftime show at the Cowboys-Redskins game yesterday. Several primal components of my being continue to approve heartily of Meghan Trainor. I actually went out and commerced today. I went to Publix, because the single best time of the year to go to the grocery store is Black Friday morning. And then … Read more
For a lot of my stint at Madison Books & Computers and Computers & More, the “486” was the hot computer. (As in Intel 80486 microprocessor.) I can remember one earnest-but-naïve salesman telling more than one customer “this should be enough to get you through the rest of the ’90s.” Roy Clark has died at … Read more