KISS my magnet – or may the Force be with you!

KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid – a great motto, at least for me, for the simpler it gets the more profound it seems to get and the simplest and most profound piece of science I remember from what? Elementary school? Junior High? I’m not sure. Maybe even high school. But it was at least [...]

Uh oh – forget the bailout – Detroit already sat on its brains too long!

I read Friedman’s column this morning with that mixed feeling you get when you suddenly meet the future and find it both exciting and devastating because there is something here that feels right, big time, and makes the auto industry bailout feel wrong – big time – and that means we’re in for one of [...]

Laugh like a child – a taste of pure joy!

I don’t laugh – laugh like a child – very often these days, but yesterday my early Christmas present to myself arrived – a 24-inch IMac – and a few hours later our grandchildren were here helping us decorate the tree. That was great family fun, as usual, but what happened next had no [...]

Hey FedEx! Is Rudolph AWOL?

Update: 4:30 pm Dec. 6 -All is forgiven – Santa arrived – she was cery bice, too – carrying a package with ease that I could hardly lift – ahh youth So while FedEx tracking l(in this case) eaves something to be desired, the service performed up to my expectations. That [...]

The great hearing aid ripoff – why do we tolerate it?

My hearing is seriously impaired, it has impacted my life for decades, and I’ve spent at least $10,000 on hearing aids over the past 30 years with only nominal success. I purchased my last pair of hearing aids for $4,500 about six years ago. They never worked real well, one of them is now [...]

Obama’s ’secret’ weapon – try it!

I was a bit surprised when a New York Times news analysis on Friday began:
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination with the enthusiastic support of the left wing of his party, fueled by his vehement opposition to the decision to invade Iraq and by one of the most liberal voting records in [...]

Star Trek – a future where we don’t change?

I’m way behind on my Star Trekking, but from what I just saw – I watched an episode of “The Next Generation” called “Evolution” that came out in 1989 -it and many other science fiction of the space opera sub-genre seem to miss one huge point – people will evolve and very [...]