Fastener Chart – (PDF) For some of you guys this might be a “so what?” but for people like me, who only know Phillips and “regular”, this is not only useful but fascinating. I think the guys on HGTV and DIY network could use this since they don’t appear to know the difference between lag [...]

I love my life. I really do. A few minutes ago I looked out my back door and saw a tufted titmouse on the back porch. It hopped a little closer and pecked at dried leaves and debris. It flew to the stack of firewood and hopped around on that for a minute, coming even [...]

I have been seeing these all my life but I don’t know what they are called. I’ve never even heard a common name for them. I guess it’s “just a weed”. Ever since I was a kid I’ve been a bit fascinated by them – so tiny, no more than a quarter inch across, with [...]

As I’ve already said, I had a bit of down-time on Friday and I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, which looks really different on the inside from the ancient version I’ve been using. (I have a slight phobia about upgrading) As soon as I was back in action I discovered that I had [...]

Sorry for the downtime. I know my multitudes of adoring fans were just devastated. All three of you. Anyway… The good/bad news (other than being back in action) is that I had to update WordPress. Finally. I hate the new dashboard. This is why I hate updating stuff. Why do they have to keep changing [...]

I got an email this morning saying that this site has reached 80 percent of its bandwidth limit for the month. It usually doesn’t come anywhere near the limit. I suspect bots but I have no idea how to prevent the nasty things. So I might just take a break until March which, fortunately, is [...]

I finished my second reading of China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station. The first time I read this book I was blown away by its uniqueness and the beauty of Mieville’s prose. The second time, in addition to enjoying the beauty and the weirdness of it, I was struck by what a really good story it [...]

In the unlikely event that anyone actually cares, I have been working on updating my long neglected links page. Blogs have been added, blogs (mostly long abandoned) have been removed, categories have been changed and blogs have been moved around. I haven’t even touched the right column yet. I’ve been working on the blog side [...]

You might think I’m only posting this because my son is in it. You’re probably right. But it is good and it’s helpful. It needs to go viral. Yes it does. Because I say so.

A little something from XKCD for those of you will be on the road this holiday and/or weekend.

Morning Pages Deep Fried Gadgets (via) Brain Pickings – a very interesting blog Tribbles revisted – Love the third picture! Behind every great woman… – So true. The Neuroscience of Time – Why you can’t tell time by your internal clock

It’s Monday morning and I got nothin’, so let’s see how far I can go with nothing. Mother’s Day was nice. When your kids are all grown up all you really want for Mother’s Day is to spend a little time with them. I’ve been a sewing maniac lately. In just the last few days [...]

From Look! A Baby Wolf!: “Take the first sentence from the first post of each month of 2011. That’s your year in review.” January: Good morning to you on the first day of this fine new year. February: When you turn on the TV and turn to the local evening news and the first thing [...]

From now on any comment that contains the word “outlet” will be held for moderation. Also, I have added several brand names to the blacklist.

I saw this favorites list at Autumn People and even though it’s impossible for me to name just one favorite of anything, I immediately decided to give it a try. 1. Favorite candy – I like candy way too much. I’ll have to give a really broad answer and just say chocolate. I especially love [...]

A customer service story Future archeology Round Table discovery? Appliances that connect to the Internet – I hate to sound like a luddite but no thanks. The tweet clock is kinda cute though.

On picking battles – BWAHAHAHAHA! This blog is going on my list. Great photo – Brave pelican? No. Just a birdbrain. Did Shakespeare smoke weed? – Most likely. It wasn’t illegal in those days, you know. Flat Earth Map – Fascinating. World City – If the world’s entire population lived in one city how big [...]

I am blogging on my phone! High tech, huh? We are on our way to Guthrie with the son & daughter-in-law. I don’t think I’ll be doing much mobile blogging. Very slow typing, but I had to try it once.

We’re getting a new modem on Wednesday. Hopefully that will fix our problem. Then I think I might spend a whole day just playing on the Internet. UPDATE: Last night I dreamed that looked at the blog and found three comments on this post. [sigh] I guess that’s a sign that my life is rather [...]

I’m not sure but I think that while I was deleting spam I might have accidentally deleted a legitimate comment or two. If I did I apologize. Please comment again. I had several spam comments and was just going through them, spam, click, spam, click, spam, click and at some point I stopped paying attention [...]

I’ve been having difficulty commenting on a couple of blogs that require you to sign in to comment. I totally blame Google. No one at Google is going to read this of course but if they did this is what I’d want to say to them: Get your crap together. You have deliberately tried to [...]

Nicole reacts to the latest cheap high. First of all, I must say that if you use illegal drugs or drink, sniff, snort or smoke household products to get high you’re an idiot. However, we can’t ban or put behind the counter everything that idiot people’s idiot kids discover they can use to get high. [...]

I’ve been neglecting to upload an updated version of my links page for quite some time now. I frequently make changes, then upload whenever I get around to it. And to anyone out there who is thinking of telling me that there is a better way, thanks but I love my simple, old-fashioned, scriptless HTML [...]

I want one of these. This could be a series too. Pretty and useless things I want. But I do that all the time anyway.