"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
I spent the morning in Ed’s garage, installing a new windscreen on my Honda Goldwing. From the day I bought the Goldwing there’s been a problem with the windscreen adjustment mechanism, which is supposed to hold it in the raised position. It never worked right: even on a short ride, the windscreen would slide down to […]
This is interesting. National Public Radio interviews a waitress who served Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff at an Iowa restaurant. The waitress says she didn’t get a tip, and NPR, without checking with the Clinton campaign, airs the accusation. Clinton’s people rebut the accusation, showing a credit card receipt for the restaurant tab and claiming […]
Did somebody hack Google today? Out of pure laziness, I just used Google to search for two sites, Boing Boing and Metafilter. Both times Google came up with links to individual archived entries at those sites, but no links to the sites’ home pages. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing? I should probably ask “What […]
Another birthday come and gone. Thank God the goodies last longer than the day itself. Speaking of which, here’s my new bicycle: Pretty pretentious, eh? So pretentious it came with clip-in pedals, which in turn forced an investment in high-tech bicycle shoes. I rode it for the first time today, mainly to get the knack […]
I met three buddies at a Tucson gas station at 8:30 this morning for a ride to the Cycle World Motorcycle Show in Phoenix. Good thing I choked down an English muffin at home first, because we rode two hours to Phoenix without a stop, spent two-and-a-half hours at the strangely food-free show venue, then rode […]
My, what won’t they think of next? Your past life diagnosis: I don’t know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Oceania around the year 1750. Your profession was that of a sailor or shoemaker. Your brief psychological profile […]
The blogiverse managed to survive October without much input from me. I’ve been hashing, and what little I’ve written lately’s over at the other blog. But I feel I owe this blog something, even if only a summary of events and a couple of cheap shots at our betters. So far this month I’ve set two hash trails, one the […]
Another letter from my father, describing some of his experiences at the end of WWII in the Pacific, when he was a crewman on the USS Bolster, an auxiliary repair ship: At the end of WWII the USS Bolster was on its way to Ulithi Atoll to join the assembled fleet poised for the invasion […]