Lost Journal: Hitting the Junior Prom Jackpot
Journal entry: October 15, 1985 (age 16) A particularly Sloppy Joe fell out of my hands and onto the cafeteria table. “WHO wants to go to the prom … Read more
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I Sing The Body Holographic
Perhaps the holodeck from Star Trek: The various Generations isn’t that far in the future after all. A lingerie shop in Paris has been featuring this as their window display:
While my French is virtually non-exista…
Radiation Exposure? There’s An App For That!
Following the Fukashima disaster the Japanese people have become understandably concerned about radiation exposure. Enter the Pantone 5 107SH, the first cell phone with a built in Geiger counter.
It comes in an assortment of …
Lost Journal: Porking out at Park Diner is a Perk
Journal entry: June 15, 2006 (age 37) For the three and a half years I have lived at the bottom of Mill Street in Binghamton, proximity to the … Read more
Decoration Day
When I was a boy growing up in Sacramento Grandmother didn’t call it Memorial Day. She always referred to the holiday at the end of May by its older name, Decoration Day. It was the day we went to put flowers on my mo…
Four Men Dressed In Panda Suits
…and it’s not a photo from a furry convention. It is a group of researchers transferring a giant panda to a new location. The researchers are trying to expose the pandas to as little human influence as possible. When they have to…
Noblesse Oblige (See Below)
Rankin Paynter, who owns a jewelry exchange business in Northern Kentucky, was poor as a child. Now he feels for the customers who come to him because they have fallen on hard times.
“There are a lot of needy familie…
A Frog Eats the Sun
There’s something about the quality of diminished light from an eclipse that is unlike almost anything else. It is different from overcast or smoke or smog. Perhaps that contributes to the eerie feeling that accompanies the sense of wonder.
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Yet Another Reason Why Iceland Rocks
I never really paid that much attention to Iceland until they resolved their financial crisis my creating a new government and constitution, jailing their bankers, defaulting on the debt, and starting over. (Their economy has steadily im…
Woman’s Language
Nushu is a phonetic version of Chinese used exclusively by women in the Hunan Province in southern China from some time around the 13th century until the late 19th century. The language arose because most women in that era did not have the same access…
