It’s funny how things can change. Like for example, my ability to tolerate cold. There was a time when I thought nothing of going someplace with only a tshirt, shorts and MAYBE a light windbreaker type jacket in sub-freezing weather. Now of course I am not a hamster, I wasn’t walking anywhere [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Remember those old Samsonite luggage commercials where they’d show their stuff getting horribly abused and talk about how it could take the worst kind of pounding?
Well, I was browsing around on YouTube recently and ran across something that reminded me of them. It’s a clip of baggage handlers at O’hare [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Another school year is getting started and its suddenly occurred to me once again just how long it’s been since I was in school. This got me to thinking how much things have changed since then. For one thing, back then there was actually a genuine emphasis on education. [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads With the retirement of Bill Gates (you know, the guy credited with saying that 640k was enough for anybody?) Well, it seems that one of his functions has been to try and keep the folks at Microsoft in step with reality. One of the ways was shown in an [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Semi-Random thought: When I was a kid I was one of the rare ones that never knew beans about sports. I am not a hamster, I just couldn’t get the point of most professional sports that all the other kids talked about so much. I mean, I sorta got [...]