I started this blog on May 26, 2009 with the hopes of using it to make money and reach lots of people. But, as with so many things in life, I wound up learning more myself than I imparted to others, and my goals became less clear. I went from a naive vision of [...]
Here I am in sunny California. What better place to be than the beach! Yesterday we packed up the blankets and beach chairs and trooped off to the beach. But, as Murphy dictates, it was foggy when we got there, and nobody except Neil was brave enough to touch the water. The rest of [...]
We’re in Las Vegas today. We’re staying at the Stratosphere (it’s only 30 bucks per night). As everybody knows, checking in to a Las Vegas hotel necessitates first walking through the hotel casino. Last night, as the boys and I wove our way through the slot machines on the casino floor, Neil asked me [...]
Who spends $657.70 on knickknacks at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant? Some lady in West Virginia buying Christmas presents, that’s who. Yes, I too was in a West Virginia Cracker Barrel last week; but, in my defense, Cracker Barrel food is cheap comfort food and it’s really tasty. Their in-restaurant stores, however, baffle me. For those [...]
This is the Junior Flight Ranger Program booklet that the National Park Service gives to kids who visit Kitty Hawk. It beats an Applebee’s place mat. Click over the image to see the entire booklet in PDF version. Have fun!
My wife, for some reason explainable only to her, likes renaissance fairs. We go to one every year to eat a turkey leg and participate in all manner of non historical nonsense. If you’ve ever been to one of these fairs, you can sympathize with the tendency I have to dismiss any product or [...]
I spent a few hours in the New Bern museum of colonial history yesterday. I learned a few interesting things I didn’t know before, but I was especially interested in what I found in the gift shop – George Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior. When he was 14 years old, in 1745, he [...]
I wish I had known this a long time ago: A study by the University of Southern Brittany, and published in the July issue of the journal Psychology of Music, has discovered that music lyrics have the power to influence 18-20 year old women into accepting date requests. The test subjects were told they were going [...]
In 4 years we will all be obliterated by a monstrous asteroid, and there’s nothing we can do about it. While it’s not true (as far as we know) it’s a sentence that would certainly change the way you live. The boys and I were watching a show about planets, minor planets, moons, comets [...]
Well, today is Halloween. That means I’m busy with costume preparations and activities. Thus, I bring you 10 versions of one of my favorite poems, ”The Raven”. El Cuervo (Spanish) Simpsons Raven John Aston Alan Parson’s Project Christopher [...]
This is a test of our website. It went down this morning. Here are a few jokes to tide you over till we fix it up: A Penguin walks into a bar. He walks up to the bartender and asks, “Have you seen my brother?” The bartender replies, “I [...]
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