Well, this is certainly interesting. I’ll kick off this sundry assortment with a diversion. Oh, look a bird! Grammarly, not Grammarly. Grammarly offers a free writing assistant, a plug-in, that checks basic spelling,...
Read MoreYears end and what a year this was! This will be my most political year-end statement because it kicked off my 2017. In the late ’80’s, a brilliant classmate from China mentioned that the Chinese cultural revolution...
Read MoreClimate model changes. Well, this is good news.¹ Or not.² It seems a group of scientists have found more time in their studies for humans to respond to global warming/climate change. Hmmm, really?  For your consideration,...
Read MoreOn this morning after a weekend of being riveted, horrified, saddened, dismayed, disgusted, angered by the violence and news coming out of Charlottesville, Virginia; after my amazement that the POTUS’ response to the...
Read MoreI’ve returned from Vivacation in the beautiful remote north woods of Minnesota where the loons are on the lake, loons can be heard, and Internet connectivity is scarce, sparse, or both. It’s truly lovely. (Well, once...
Read MoreAh, aerosol cans. An early memory of Right Guard was of my father boldly announcing he needed a “trucker’s shower” and then giving himself a spritz of Right Guard from an aerosol can under each arm. But...
Read MoreYesterday, Diageo announced they are purchasing Casamigos tequila brand for $700 million up front with the potential for an additional $300 million based on the tequila’s performance over 10 years.  Wowza! That’s a...
Read MoreToday I read that NASA received permission to look for extraterrestials in the 2017 NASA Authorization Act. And to that I say, JUST STOP, DON’T DO IT NASA! Right now humans need to be stealthy, quiet, mind our own...
Read MoreUpdate: June 8, 2017. Â Original text removed, because hmmm … I do not want to be the purveyor and promoter of faux outrage, bad science and wrong maths and conversions. Previous verbiage while written beautifully, was way,...
Read MoreIn the 50+ years I have lived on this little blue dot hula-hooping the small star in our solar system which is in the Milky Way which is itself hurtling toward the Andromeda galaxy, I have seen, heard, and learned things to...
Read MoreAh! Finally a post on something other than politics. Recently I tripped across an article on a new small output, small wind turbine whose design is meant to resemble a tree! And so I was thrown back down memory lane to the set...
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