"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
I remember, as a kid, reading a science fiction story about a future in which working adults are forced to buy, use, wear out, and replace enormous amounts of material goods, their lives an exhausting cycle of consumption imposed on them by the government in order to keep the nation’s economic engine going. Older people, […]
Posted to a Goldwing forum yesterday: Thanks to my friend Ed, mounted and balanced in the comfort of his heated garage. And no wobble, at least for awhile . . . actually, the second set of tires I ran on this motorcycle, D250s, never cupped or wobbled. If only they had lasted longer . . […]
Favorite posts from 2009: January: Fuzzy Logic February: George Washington on Facebook March: My Dog Has Many Names April: Automotive Anthropology May: If Two Is Good, Three Must Be Better June: Call for Philip Morris July: I Married an Italian August: Chillin’ in Bisbee September: I Know Where I Was; Where Were You? October: Car-Eating […]
Polly called this afternoon to report Skipper’s passing. We brought Skipper into our family in 1986, for no better reason than that we’d named our daughter Polly and getting her her own parrot seemed like the right thing to do. Skipper lived with us in Florida, Okinawa, Hawaii, Nevada, and Arizona; a few years ago […]
I don’t mean this in any sort of down way, but I’m finally coming to realize that when you’re retired, with the kids grown and gone, settled down in the house you plan to stay in until they pry it from your cold dead fingers, there’s not a lot you can put into an annual […]
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer Several months ago a marketing director at HarperCollins read one of my book reviews. She contacted me to ask if I would read and review an advance copy of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, and of […]
Sarah shows her true colors again. From Ben Smith at Politico (posted yesterday, December 3rd): Speaking to the conservative talker Rusty Humphries today, Sarah Palin left the door open to speculation about President Obama’s birth certificate. “Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?” she was asked [ . . . ] […]