Eight or nine years ago I was in the market for a small machine. I bought a used X120. Ten minutes with that keyboard and my fingers were in love.

Eight or nine years ago I was in the market for a small machine. I bought a used X120. Ten minutes with that…

I forget when I discovered Car Talk, probably some time in the ‘80s, but I loved it from the first time. And the more I heard, the better I liked it. When I discovered that Tom & Ray were musicians as well (I seem to recall C. F. Martin producing a Car Talk guitar, with all the production staff, such as their chauffeur…

I had a bizarre problem with Outlook. I had recently decided that having two near-identical systems was better than lugging my notebook from work to home and back again. My Office 365 subscription handled a second installation of Office, so I was good there, etc., etc. Everything worked—until I tried to set up Outlook…

There’s a huge difference between “that stuff is 95% fake” and “95% of that stuff is fake.”

This is why the answer is to find butter that you like and stay with it.  There’s reasonable consistency within brands.

I haven’t met one yet, but if you have one that doesn’t do well with salt, that’s a good reason to keep a second type. But probably the only good reason.

Just buy great salted butter for everything and be done with it. Problem solved. Problem especially solved because, strictly IMO, butter you use for cooking definitely affects flavor. You should use good butter for the same reason you use good olive oil: it makes a difference. Note that I am not suggesting you buy the…

Exhibit A:  President Donald J. Trump.

I’ve always used “e = [for] example and i = [that] is.”

Have you ever read Dr. Seuss’ Sneeches on Beaches?

If you pick and choose, some kosher laws (Kashrut) certainly look health-related. Pork certainly could carry disease. But so could beef. We’re well aware of salmonella, yet there are no restrictions on chicken, eggs, etc. Further, other cultures placed no such restrictions on pork, in spite of the apparent risk. …

Nobody really knows. I suspect Jewish dietary laws arose as a deliberate contrast to the eating habits of others in the region. It draws an us/them line, just as does the LDS Word of Wisdom. It reminds you of who you belong with, and who you don’t. No health rationale required.

Dietary laws are not about science or health or anything else. They’re about reminding you of what you believe. If you’re an observant Jew, there are some things you don’t do, and some ways you do things that make you distinctive. If you’re an observant Latter-day Saint, there are some things you don’t do, and some…

It’s the fat.  I was taught to use butter, and it works for most stickers.

The way your body reacts to coffee changes over time (and there are probably varying concentrations of caffeine). By the time I was in college I could drink ~15 10oz cups a day, no problem. In grad school, a large mug of espresso was my bedtime drink.

Fireworks, yes, but Autumn leaves as well.

I was able to understand that Ford needed an inexpensive car at the time—I have a vivid memory of advertising selling the Pinto for $1995 (I think!). But the baffle in the tank was a simple fix that would have pushed the price by about $15, IIRC. The bottom line turned out to be costly; as the Car Guys used to say,…

I was in college in the second half of the ‘70s. Some time around ‘79 or so, I was in a criminology class, and the professor let me take over for an hour to discuss Iacocca and the Pinto.

You know, I am not a car guy. I don’t care about displacement or horsepower, though I do enjoy the fact that my car gets 38 MPG on average.

My initial reaction was “It’s the Ghostbusters hearse!”