This year, my movie viewing habits prevented me from seeing any of the Oscar-nominated films ahead of the awards ceremony. Even those of the nominees…
Remember how at the end of this meme I promised to catch up “in the next year or so” on some of the yet-unread books…
Consumer energy markets have been deregulated for a few years now. A household in New Jersey has a choice of buying their electricity and/or gas…
My regular readers – however few of you are out there – likely could notice that I started a new series of posts in the…
Turns out that even after not having lived in the UK for two and a half years and not having a single penny of UK-taxable…
Among the recent junk in our mailbox, Natasha received a cruise offer. Straight to the recycling bin, normally. Except! This one was addressed to her…
After a family viewing of one of Becky’s favorite childhood flicks, worldly person that she is, she made a whimsical reference to her high-school friends…
In our neck of comparatively multi-cultural suburbia, there is a fair percentage of people who hail from the former Soviet Union. Kimmy recently relayed an…
With a bit of spare time on my hands, I decided to change the way embedded pictures are enlarged to a more contemporary and elegant…
Here’s the Twitter conundrum in its full glory: The simplest thing to do was to tweet something along the lines of “Took a professional test…
Trying to think – not for the first time, mind you – what I would use Twitter for. I don’t care to share the tidbits…
One of those songs that I cannot get out of my head for days once someone plants it there. Maybe, if I pass it on…
It will say in sufficiently large and light-reflecting letters: “If you see cars passing you on the right, MOVE TO THE SLOWER LANE, ASSHOLE!”
I have spent the last hour or so recovering my blog from backups after it was hacked by some f***ers who had replaced my WordPress…
I would really like to live in a place with no natural disasters or extreme weather conditions to disrupt the normal flow of life. No…
My wife’s brother’s wife’s sister’s daughter had her first child the other day. Yeah, I know, it’s not exactly a close relation, in-laws of in-laws,…
A number of people whose blogs I read did this meme, where they took the recently compiled NPR list of Top 100 Science Fiction and…
We’ve been back on the home soil for two years now. I felt a tiny bit of re-branding of the site was due. The word…
Along with uncounted others, I have been unpleasantly – to use a mild term – surprised by Netflix’s changes in the pricing structure announced a…
A selection of photos from our fairly recent trip to Madrid and environs is available at our Picture Gallery. Use link on the menu or…