ХудожникHi-ho, ( SUMMARY: Donate to my bike ride for charity; and then read the wacky letter below. ) As many of you know, in keeping with the traditions of my people, each spring I do something incredibly stupid. It’s what brought my forefathers and foremothers across the ocean ( “Look, dear — the snow is […]
Hi-ho all, ( EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR FOLKS WHO HATE TO READ STUFF: I’m riding against diabetes again; please donate! ) As many of you know, last spring I bought a ludicrously expensive bicycle in order to guilt myself into riding it and getting exercise so that I would lose weight and not die. And, figuring […]
So, if Republicans are correct and lowering tax rates always leads (in the long term) to the government taking in more revenues than it would have at the higher tax rate, isn’t the logical conclusion that the tax rate should be 0 and that would lead to the government taking in the most possible tax […]
So, after a couple years of trying really hard to get a mythical Woot Bag of Crap, and cursing every time the stupid server of theirs would go down the instant the bag of crap came up for purchase, I’d given up hope. But, a few weeks back there was a Woot off, and I […]
I’m a bit of a clock guy, and I’ve got a bunch in my house and in my office. Â I’ve got bunches of regular analog clocks. Â I’ve got my grandparent’s mantle clock that they were given for their wedding in the early 1930s, which we wind with a key and which chimes on the hour […]
As some of you know, because I emailed you and asked you to donate to the American Diabetes Association for my ride in the Napa Tour de Cure. My friend, Mark, had organized a team, and because I had the same kind of bike as he has he asked me if I’d like to […]
up in San Francisco, at the Great American Music Hall. It’s probably been a number of years since I last went to a concert — heck, maybe the last real one was Voice Farm, which would have been in the mid 1990s. Jonathan was great ( and, the two opening acts were also good — […]
I’ve been playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on my Wii ( and having fun ), but somehow I never thought it would get Lord Vader on my case…
Every year, one of the sessions I’m involved with at Apple’s World-wide Developer’s Conference is called Stump the Experts. Ostensibly, it’s a “game” show, where the developers are suppose to ask trivia questions about (mostly) the Macintosh, and we answer them, because we’re all experts and know pretty much everything. I’ve been on the panel […]