Fun with Nouns and Verbs
Michael Hightower Today I said, “I need to estimate an estimate?” and got interested in words with different pronunciations when used as nouns or verbs. Which led to… Allow me to present…
Stuff By Me
Doctor Who Doctor Review: Colin Baker
Oh Colin Baker, who’s fault are you? I had wondered before starting in with his episodes if I would agree with the common wisdom that he’s the worst of the…
Doctor Who Doctor Review: Peter Davison
Time for another Doctor Who Doctor Review: Peter Davison I’m waiting to watch the last available Patrick Troughton episode before I review him, and still have season 16 of Tom…
Doctor Who Doctor Review: Jon Pertwee
I’ve just finished watching all of the Jon Pertwee episodes of Doctor Who. While there are no bad doctors, per se, I find his portrayal to be one of the…
Getting closer to importing Emax disks into my ESI-32
For a while now I’ve been trying to find a way to recover my old Emax floppies. Here’s the deal: The ESI-32 can import Emax stuff but can only do…
Tom SwiftKeys (by Karen Brown Brown Brown Small Sauce Pan)
A while ago my friend John and I were playing with SwiftKey on our Android phones and made a game out of letting it finish our sentences for us. The…
Think You Know What the ‘BA’ in BA Baracus Stands For, Fool?
Below is a Facebook exchange from yesterday that got a li’l silly. I first posted this: Then my friends and I kept this joke going (I’ve shortened their names and…
Kurzweil K2000 Service Manual and Other Data
I’ve started working on repairing the messed up K2000 I got for $25 from Guitar Center. There was a service manual available online, but it was just an image scan.…
New Personal Jingle: Chris Schoen
This one’s going out to my friend, Chris Schoen. He’s a master of wearing cardigans, which, sadly, I couldn’t shoehorn into this track.
Odd book find: Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought, 1898
While packing up our books I came across something I didn’t know we had: Horace Fletcher’s “Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought” from 1898. It’s a self-help book that…
Testing adding a YouTube link
Just trying out adding a YouTube link using the Ultimate TinyMCE editor for WordPress: Looks like it works, yay!
Trying a SoundCloud plugin
One of the things I think I like about WordPress so far is the ease of adding plugins. Here is a SoundCloud plugin that links to the latest music I’ve…
Why Are Round Manhole Covers Round?
Why Are Round Manhole Covers Round? About 25 years ago the question “Why are manhole covers round?” appeared in the book “When Do Fish Sleep?” by David Feldman. Since then,…
Cash for Clunkers – How to Fix It
One of the fundamental ideas of Cash for Clunkers is sound, in my opinion: Get people interested in buying more fuel efficient vehicles. But the wastefulness of destroying perfectly usable…
Cash for Clunkers – Who Sets the Price?
In the discussion following yesterday’s Cash for Clunkers article, John Rodes made an excellent point: "It IS obvious that different "factors" are "present" and the most obvious is price. Simply…
Cash for Clunkers – Doin’ The Math
I hate to see old cars die. They represent the efforts of so many people—designers and engineers, mechanics, accountants, miners, and myriad others. And a car is such a personal…
Desi Arnaz Offensive – Who knew?
During the Sotomajor confirmation hearings an amusing moment occurred when Sotomajor mistakenly implied she would shoot Sen. Tom Coburn. Coburn quipped, "You’ll have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do." There…