Monthly Archives: September 2018

With all the depressing news nowadays, it’s refreshing to read some heart-warming stories. The first is about a lost narwhale adopted by a pod of Beluga whales. (Read the article for details.)   The second is Goodbye Miss Kiska, Hu-dad’s … Continue reading →

Rummuser’s post about wasting time reminds me of Are You Spending Enough Time “Doing Nothing?”, which I posted in December 2007. Here is a picture and some quotes from the post. So you see, imagination needs moodling — long, inefficient, … Continue reading →

https://youtu.be/NHxVq9MHo7o The video in this article is even better — it shows the scene from two survelliance cameras: Armed Robbers Take Over A Store, Underestimate The 83-Year-Old Man In The Room. My 83-year-old wrestles with fallen trees rather than robbers, … Continue reading →

In a recent comment, Rummuser wrote: One way or the other money must get spent and when someone spends he treats it like an investment for future returns. One needs to find out what those returns are and for whom? … Continue reading →

The Weather Chanel is experimenting with a technology called immersive mixed reality to get peoples’ attention and warn them of the dangers of hurricanes and flooding from storms: It’s scary, but it could save lives. September 16, 2018  

Using documentary-style storytelling, which can last for several minutes, candidates have found a successful alternative to the traditional model of raising huge sums of money that get spent on expensive, 30-second television commercials. The videos are chiefly intended as ads, … Continue reading →

People miscommunicate all the time, but we continue to assume other people will understand what we’re trying to say. It can have tragic consequences sometimes, but it’s also a great source of humor. This video of Jeanne Robertson I showed … Continue reading →

As Hurricane Florence bears down on North Carolina, the state may face the consequences of policies minimizing the impact of climate change and allowing extensive development in vulnerable coastal areas. The approaching storm almost certainly gained destructive power from a … Continue reading →

The trip to Española took only three hours today, less than the four-hour trip to Santa Fe yesterday. It took an hour driving back and forth and two hours at the neurologist’s. Andy told him about his minor symptoms now … Continue reading →

We were gone over four hours today — about two driving back and forth to Santa Fe and two hours at the eye doctor’s for Andy’s shot in his left eye. We’ll go back next week for the right eye. … Continue reading →