Yeah, but according to this medical doctor I married thirty-six years ago - and who has filled out her share of death certificates - when you see cause of death listed as “cardiac arrest” with no additional reasons, alarm bells should start going off in your head.

(Having said that, I am now I’m wondering if when you’re on a heart bypass machine you’re technically alive or dead.)

100% of deaths are the result of cardiac arrest. That’s what “dead” means: your heart stopped beating. The devil is in the root cause analysis.

I’m not a large car fan - my daily driver is a Subaru WRX, and for years I drove a tiny Honda CRX Si - but like krhodes1 I’ve had a 300 as a rental several times and I really enjoyed driving it. Once the Spousal Unit and I were driving a black one around on a trip out of town and I told her I felt like I was driving a…

Three motorcycles, the *newest* of which is coming up on twenty years of age. In my defense, they all three currently run and are rideable. The oldest could use a little carb tuning.

On a trip to Dublin Ireland last year, our hotel had a free shuttle bus from the airport. But if the hotel had not had a video on YouTube explaining in detail where the bus stop was - complete with the presenter walking through the airport from baggage claim to the stop - I don’t think we would have ever found it. Now…

I expect a co-authored tell-all book is in the works.

I’m an embedded software developer by profession. Although some of my work has been on microcontrollers (and I’ve done a ton of personal stuff with the microcontroller-based Arduino), most of my paying gigs in the past decade have been Linux-based. I’ve found the Raspberry Pi to be pretty ideal for embedded…

I’m an embedded software developer by profession. Although some of my work has been on microcontrollers (and I’ve…

When he subscribed to newspapers, magazines, or journals - you know, when that was still a thing - my late father-in-law would use a different middle initial with each subscription. Then, for every piece of junk mail that arrived, he would check to see who had sold his name to whom.

Eventually, Donald Trump will not be president. It might be in 2021. Or it might be in 2025. But one way or another, it is inevitable. And when it does happen, there will be an army of angry, humiliated, insulted, depressed, and vengeful former employees, aides, subordinates, bureaucrats, veterans, hangers on, and…

Dear Phoenix: I’ve had a lovely time visiting you several times in August. And I agree: the only way I survived it was [1] shade, [2] those evaporative cooler sprayer things, [3] ice cream. Love: Chip

The one in our neighborhood is on an access road right next to Interstate 70 between Denver and Golden. We like to go there on a summer evening for dinner, and sit on the patio watching the parade of humanity, some locals, some just passing through.

Oh, and our personal favorite fast food in the Denver metro area? Easy: Good Times. It’s Colorado’s equivalent to In-N-Out Burger. Most are drive-through only, but (if we ever get past this effing pandemic) most also have patios with benches, tables, umbrellas, perfect for a nice day or summer evening. Plus: frozen…

I’m not buying the map either. But we have a Mod Pizza (which Mrs. Overclock and I refer to by their tag line “super fast”, spoken like Molly Shannon’s character on SNL) in our neighborhood, and we like it. Get pizza in just a few minutes made anyway you like it for a flat rate regardless of toppings. Get an all…

A lot of things that seem like they must be conspiracies are in fact just individual actors - people, companies, etc. - responding rationally yet independently to a common set of incentives.

I’ve lived in the Denver area for over thirty years and I’ve never even *heard* of the sandwich listed for Colorado.

I had never even heard of “loose meat sandwiches” until many years ago when I attended a funeral for my father-in-law in his home town of Ottumwa Iowa - also Radar O’Reilly’s home town. Me, my spousal unit, and her older brother and sister had lunch at the Canteen Lunch in the Alley, a place famous enough to have it’s…

I just bought one of the 25% off waxed cotton trucker jackets (tan) - just in time, I must admit, for it to get warm in the Denver Colorado area - but I really like it. It’ll be perfect (not to mention stylish) in the fall and spring. I’d been looking at them for a long long time, but couldn’t bring myself to pay full…

I just bought one of the 25% off waxed cotton trucker jackets (tan) - just in time, I must admit, for it to get warm…

And it had one of the greatest scores of all time, written by none other than John Williams.

Same as Mr. P: we used to tip our waitperson 20%, but these days we’re more like 25% for carry-out. We want our favorite neighborhood places to survive. “Keep the change” is my mantra now.