For various reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve been playing with a Blackberry lately. I bought one used and unlocked on eBay and have been messing with it for about a week. I don’t get it and I really…
The UK’s Space Program…
One of the TV shows that always makes me laugh is "Top Gear". It’s nominally a car show, but that’s a very loose framework within which they have a lot of fun. Case in point, an episode I saw a…
Hazardous Chemicals…
I was a nerdy kid ("Noooo" I hear you cry). Had a hand-drawn periodic table on the wall, took apart anything I could get my hands on and had a number of toys that apparently you just can’t get any…
Knobs & Dials…
I was talking with a friend of mine the other day. He’s a former tech exec who now works in real estate development and his business has been a bit beaten up by the state of the economy. We got…
The dangers of pitching while on cold meds…
As I mentioned, I was half-dead last week with some kind of MTD (miscellaneous toddler disease) I picked up from my daughter. Last Friday I had a meeting I didn’t want to cancel, so I dragged my Nyquil-soaked butt to…
Life, the Universe and Everything is weirdly lumpy…
I need a new phrase. You’re doubtless familiar with the old adage "it never rains but it pours". It’s usually taken as a bad thing — you don’t just get a drop of rain, you get buckets of water. But…