Little Plates
Sunny Madrid The mother of one of Annabelle's friends just got back from a trip to Madrid, Spai…
Overheard At The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Found in cyberspace: a live chat log from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), recorded on May 25, …
Dirty Water
This is one of my favorite songs from the 60's. We had the 45 when I was a kid. I listened to i…
Gleesome Gladness
Ninety-seven years ago today was the first day of the first "official" Kansas State Fai…
Dung Beetle
I am excited. Have you heard about the car that runs on turds? Actually, it runs on methane gas ge…
What Ambrose Bierce Thinks Of Custard
"A detestable substance produced by the malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow and the cook…
They Trust The Monkeys
Maybe the problem isn't that we have too many distractions in our lives, but that they aren'…
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Ninety-seven years ago today was the first day of the first "official" Kansas State Fair, held on September…
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Everyone knows that the heart is a muscle. But who wants to dwell on it? I am well aware that my heart --progenitor and…
Dirty Water
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Don't You Want To Sing With Heino?
I have Germanic ancestry in my blood but I swear to god sometimes I don't understand the German people at all.
Tubes And Transistors
Vacuum tubes and transistors. On my mind tonight. They were made by the thousands, back when computers were babies. Wh…
2011 Is Here And Waits For No One
It's only the 3rd. The year is so tender. Yet here we are, breaking it in. Everything gearing up, full steam ahead.…
