Category: General

I was reading the news about the vapor release of Verizon’s V CAST Music store. The labels open yet another retail outlet; Verizon maximizes usage of thei...

On Marketplace this morning, they talked about what’s buzzing about the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Apparently it’s the same buzzword that&...

One of the things that attracted me to the Town of Beekman is the opportunity to become involved in local government. Over the past few days I have been conside...

I can’t help but think of that spunky little fellow who kept trying to eat Foghorn Leghorn.

Do not be mistaken. Two and one-half baths is nothing less than three toilets to be plunged.

In discussing a Slate article on the Advisory Panel‘s proposed changes to the tax code, Zimran concludes From a federal standpoint there are no middle cla...

Computers have no sense of style. When a number is less than ten, it is commonly written out rather than being presented in figures, except when speaking of a s...

Have you noticed that on-line contracts are an all-or-nothing proposition? You can’t strike through specific objectionable clauses.

Driving back from Virginia after Christmas, I had to choose a route. Should I take I-81 to I-84 and thence home, or I-81 to I-78 to I-287 to I-87 to I-84 and th...

We closed on our new home on Thursday, December 22nd. The purchase was much easier than the sale. Once we have things sorted out, I’ll find some time to t...

Yesterday we closed the sale of our house in Carmel, New York. Tomorrow, we will close the purchase of our house in Poughquag, New York. This was a lot more dif...

Yes! Bow down in awe of my l33t k1dz t0yz packing sk1llz! One room. One box. (Stuffed animals and books not included.)

The Little Sister, when given colors that blend, will blend them. A friend of the family said, This looks like Kandinsky. You know Kandinsky?

I think it’s funny that the forms of “modernism” I truly dislike are the visual and built arts. I like the literary and musical expressions, a...

The Little Sister has been talking about seeing The Copycats for the past two weeks. Last weekend we went downtown to see the lights and the tree at Rockefeller...

While reminiscing about our old home sites in Loveland, Ohio, I learned that a bike trail following the route of the Little Miami Railroad Company winds through...

Inconvenience them, then reduce their inconvenience. Works wherever there’s a bottleneck.

I awoke this morning to a correspondent for NPR‘s Morning Edition talking with Paul English about his guide to voice-mail jails. Not being easily able to ...

NPR reports that Clear Channel is lobbying for subsidies to sustain “free” (that is, advertising-supported) broadcast radio. Why? Listenership is de...

When Apple introduced the Aqua look-and-feel with Mac OS X, one of the gratuitous changes was moving the minimize/maximize toggle box from the right side of the...