Ars Technica has an interesting article, entitled: Irrational Markets: People reject free money out of anger. It is a quick and cursory overview of a very interesting topic, and well worth the 5 minutes it takes to read ( Read more... )

In 13,000 BC nomads walked the lands where Cleveland stands. Exhibiting the most forethought of any human-like peoples before or since, they kept moving. About 12,000 years later a group of indigenous people who had learned to survive on sunflowers and bitter local squash decided that they were too depressed to fight it anymore and put down roots ( Read more... )

I've been diligently avoiding making posts lately about politics, economics or business. Perhaps the biggest reason for this is that, lately, I feel like I know almost zero about any of them. Anything predictable by my particular brand of common sense has gone straight out the window, and for the first time in at least the last decade, I feel ( Read more... )

It's no big secret that I am a compulsive proofreader. A Grammar Nazi. He Who Worships The Webster. Call it what you will ( Read more... )

Making the news today, we have a bunch of prudes at the "Electronic Privacy Information Center" trying to whip up support for their crusade against millimeter-wave scanning at US airportsIn general, this is not a particularly thrilling news item. But I feel the need to post it here in the hopes that my retort will also "go viral", and that enough ( Read more... )

In this era of air conditioning and cable TV, I have often lamented how most people don't know their neighbors these days. Generally, it takes one of two things for people to meet those who live near them ( Read more... )

They say in business that if you don't have your integrity, you don't have anything ( Read more... )

That's it. I have HAD it!! Today is the day that I officially become old and irrelevant. I don't care. I'm unashamed. I'm just going to come right out with it:

I despise Twitter.

Not just dislike. DESPISEMost of you know that I'm a compulsive proofreader. That's not to say that I have perfect writing, has grammar, and spellz rite. Just ( Read more... )

Yes, I was driving a 2002 GMC Envoy bucket-o-bolts with 131,000 miles on it ( Read more... )

Greetings to thee, my fine LJ peeps! Did you miss me?

Yes, I missed you too. C'mere and give your darlox a hug ( Read more... )