Assault on Battery
All these years we thought it merely coincidence that all of the low-battery alarms shrieked by all of the bad-stuff detectors in our homes seem to go off in the middle of the night....
Jay’s Blog
Emails to Friends
An email in response to the news from friends who were moving to San Diego: Ezra and Ada,* Had not heard you moved – congratulations! San Diego is a great city, and will be...
Holiday Fun Updated
For as long as I’ve been married, my wife and I — well, just I, since Sharon rarely participates in my alarmingly-frequent bouts of lunacy — share two holiday traditions (well, three, if you count dusting...
Too Much Time
I’ll admit it: I spend way too much time on graphics. I obsess over the little frosting-on-the-cake figures that accompany the stories and articles in my newsletter. But it goes beyond that: to let...
Free to Good Home
You never can tell when inspiration is going to strike. You also never know when inspiration is going to strike out, but that is another – and for me, all too common – story....
You Build It. I’ll break it.
Dell is a wonderful company. Oh sure, their laptops suck. But, like the fellow who keeps beating his head against the wall because he knows how good it feels to quit, I keep buying...
The New Math Path to Riches
Just after my last post, I was going through this blog, basking in the glory of the awesome creativity displayed herein – which in itself is further evidence of the dementia of which Sharon...
Organization Man
I am on a life-long quest for three things: a stain remover that truly removes stains, an adhesive that really holds, and an organization system that actually keeps me organized. During a particularly awesome...
Digital Immortality
Having completely run out of rabbit holes and bright shiny objects to distract me from doing actual, productive work, I decided to respond to one of those social media entreaties from someone I vaguely...
Speak Easy
As regular readers to this nonsense already know – and if you are not a regular reader, eat more fiber – I have the use of 50% fewer hands and arms than the normal...
