Once again going from Collision Detection, here’s a bit of good news. Vestergaard Frandsen has prototyped (Can I verb that?) the LifeStraw, a “straw” that contains a water purification filter. It’s 25 cm long and 29 mm in diameter—about an…
OK, YHB is still insensitive and all, but I have passed through the stage of vague interest into outrage. How could we fail to provide food, water, shelter and medicine to our own refugees? My shock over this goes back…
So for a couple of weeks there, I had access to cable TV (OK, the dish, but I think cable is idiomatic for “subscription TV with channels such as HGTV, TLC, ESPN, Bravo, FOOD, Nick, CNN and C-SPAN, but not…
OK, YHB has more or less caught up on political blather, but my lefty blogs have left this blogger confused. Perhaps you can help, Gentle Reader. Which of the following statements reflects the universe you perceive? No Democrat who opposed…
OK, so Your Humble Blogger was at a nice old amusement park, having just enough fun with my Perfect Non-Reader, and there were the signs. I took the trouble to write the text down, since I wasn’t sure I would…
OK, YHB is back. I still have a floppy of notes from the dial-up nightmare, but now I need to find an easy way to transfer that file from the floppy to this computer. I figure it’ll mean going to…
Well, that’s a pain in the ass. Here I am at the local library, and I forgot to put the recent notes on the floppy. So there it is. There are three or four notes just waiting for me to…
OK, it’s been quite some little time since I turned on the TV to see what would happen. Possibly since the election. Part of that is that we had lousy reception, so when I would have watched a few awards…
Well, and YHB is trying to figure out how to use the local library’s internet connection to do a trifle of blogging, before you Gentle Readers all forget why this Tohu Bohu is worth visiting. If it is. Anyway, this…
OK, so it case it wasn’t obvious, I’ve been catching up on my Book Reports before packing up the computer and moving house. I’ll be off-line for the next couple of days, then on dial-up for a couple of weeks…