I’ve nabbed the title for today’s blog from an very old satirical TV show that only members of a certain generation (who are still alive) will remember. The show debuted in the U.K. in 1962 hosted by comedian and journalist … Continue reading
Category Archives: technology
I had planned to write about adventures in aquiring a new cell phone, but got sidetracked briefly by my local Audubon Society newsletter. I’ll try to bring these two disparate subjects together by the end of this blog, but I … Continue reading
I fell down another technical rabbit hole yesterday when I was supposed to be working on the projects I have signed up for—another rabbit hole altogether. It started when the husband mentioned—more than once—that our Internet seemed slower. Uploading is … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) I am so tired of being… well, tired. I’m tired of spent hacks trying desperately to hold on to power. Tired of one side being outraged at the other only to find the other side just as outraged. … Continue reading
In the first of my posts on lighting a couple of weeks ago, we saw how the world depended on candles and oil lamps…and as a result was a dim, rather dirty place; after all, burning oil creates smoke, which … Continue reading
It’s early evening as I write this and getting a little dim in my office…so just now I leaned forward and with a small movement of my hand turned on the lamp on my desk. Lovely, clear light now floods … Continue reading
I’ve been “at the movies” my entire life. It’s a terminal obsession, rather and eternal obsession of which I will never be free nor do I want to be. Funny, though during our plague isolation I haven’t watched that many. … Continue reading
how I spent our morning off… Saturday August 2, AMGot a lift down to “historic downtown Laramie” this morning after breakfast and spent a couple of hours photographing the place and its idiosyncrasies – like, for instance, the bleached cowskulls … Continue reading
I’m on a lot of email lists. A lot. I go through every month or so and unsubscribe from as many as I can, but they proliferate. Some of them are sales emails that come from e-commerce sites I may … Continue reading
You’ve all been here. You’ve ALL been here. You have a particular piece of software that you LIKE, that does the job that you need it to do, that functions perfectly, that you are used to, that you can actually … Continue reading