I used to take the ID card pictures for our small office. I always told the people, “don’t smile - just look pleasant.” You need to look like you normally look, not like you’re laughing at a joke.

Did the pandemic end and I missed it? We still have time to lower the life expectancy even more with the Delta variant and the staunchly adamant anti vaxxers who seem certain that this prevention thing is a hoax.

It’s too bad the world doesn’t have a way to monitor weather that seems to move from west to east. For example, in the US when California gets hit with unusual rain moving east, that the information doesn’t seem to travel to states to the east. Someone needs to say, “Watch out Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas!!”  Or…

This is not a warm area issue. Why? Because where it routinely runs in the 90s most of the summer, we all have AC taking care of the humidity for us. Also the water coming into the house is more like 75-90 degrees F in the summer.

I understand that not all homes have or want A/C; however, if you look into a modern “mini split” system, those are ductless and cost considerably less than your estimate of 30 years ago.

Just a word of warning:  the cardboard provides great food for carpenter ants.  Ask me how I know. 

Nice reminiscence. My father made frequent trips to Japan in the 50s and brought us back the best transistor radios and cameras. My sister got a twin lens reflex Ricohflex which arrived in the broken condition. My dad could fix anything, but he didn’t try to fix her camera. I eventually fixed it in 1971 and put many…

California has a glorious history of creating state parks out of sewage disposal sites.  Just down the road is Doheny State Park, where a “fresh water” lagoon forms from the San Juan Creek, a former sewage dump.  Follow the money on that one. 

Here’s my understanding of crypto mining. If you have a powerful enough computer you can set up an account to lend your powerful computer to people who are trying to solve huge mathematical problems. Assuming your computer, or the pool your computer is in was successful solving a part of the problem, then you receive…

I have about 40 years of experience drinking diet soft drinks from straws. I cannot say I noticed any medical condition due to not washing the straws, but I can tell you the drink will come through flat instead of bubbly if/when the straw is really grossly dirty. By that I mean you get black stuff on the brush when…

And if stock grows in your area, grow that to add fragrance to your cuttings.

Think about this article next Thanksgiving. 

For temps above 110 degrees F, the humidity factor will be down below 10%, so the chart is sort of meaningless.

C- is an accurate score for The Tomorrow War.  It’s 2:20 of slow moving story punctuated perhaps 4 times with some activity, some of which is high intensity. 

I didn’t read the article either. Wasn’t Trump going to eliminate politics as usual? That’s why I voted for him the first time. It seems like he amplified politics as usual.  That’s why I did not vote for him the second time. 

You’d think the sky was falling. Well, maybe the sky is falling in this case, but putting this headline in perspective, it seems every year we get the headline, California/Texas/Florida (pick one or more) Citrus Crop Wiped Out in Cold Snap.  Then the commodity prices adjust and life goes on.  Except for the sky…

...and Gab sounds like something his mother might have done with her neighbors...assuming she was allowed out of the house and that she had friends to gab with. 

You might try using a towel for drying once you’re certain you are clean. I use a soft microfiber towel made for car washing. 

It was 1998 and we were smack in the middle of Russia in April. Snow was piled 5 feet high in most of the town. We were we advised to bring some indoor shoes that nobody would wear outside in the snow, so I brought deck shoes as my indoor slippers. As we were leaving our hotel room for the day and stepping into the…

My sleep word is i-n-s-o-m-n-i-a.