Saturday Bag o’ Heartbleed
Mark of the beast? Hail Satan, bring it on.
Friday Bag o’ Taco Fixin’s
Sometimes I feel I’m neglecting this blog, which is one of the reasons I’m posting about another mixed bag of subjects today. Why the taco theme? Well, that’s because tacos are the first item in today’s bag! Everyone’s getting excited over aerial drone deliveries again, and I’m here to piss on the dream. Ever since the original […]
I Hate to Complain, But … (Updated)
Streaming video rant follows. A little over a year ago we invested in a Roku box. We upgraded our in-house wireless network and signed up for increased download rates from Comcast, our high-speed internet service provider. And we subscribed to two streaming services, Netflix and Amazon Prime. Over the past year Amazon Prime streaming has lived […]
Monday Bag of Fetishes
Everybody has fetishes. Me too. Not stilettos, despite the graphic (hey, you try searching for “bag of fetish” and see how many options Google Images gives you), but one fetish I’ll admit to is aircraft engines, especially the round reciprocating kind. I find them irresistibly sexy. Aviators who’ve flown behind radials and had to wipe […]
Monday Bag o’ Nuts & Bolts
If you checked in on Twitter any time during the past week, you probably saw multiple references to the Grantland story. Grantland, an online magazine associated with ESPN, ran an article about “Dr. V,” the mysterious woman behind Yar Golf. The journalist, Caleb Hannan, set out to write about a radical new putter taking the […]
Happy Undead New Year
Number one daughter Polly called this morning seeking my counsel and support. She and her boyfriend David have been arguing about zombies. She says zombies are slow and eat only human brains. He says they’re fast, eat flesh as well as brains, and have even been known to eat animals. I agree with my daughter […]
Sunday Bag o’ Holiday Mail
Sunday, and another mixed bag of topics I want to say something about before I forget, topics which taken one by one wouldn’t rate posts of their own. ——————– Switching from snail mail to email for the annual holiday letter to friends and relatives seems like such a bright idea. Until you realize there are […]
Tuesday Bag o’ Gag
Seriously, if they don’t fire Richard Cohen after this, they might as well ask for Obama’s birth certificate and endorse the Tea Party.