I’ve been doing more baking in the past year, especially of things like shoo fly pies and other pies and cakes, and I’ve been keeping them in a plastic cake holder that I got who-knows-when. I decided that I needed something better than plastic, so I bought an acrylic cake stand. It’s actually multifunctional and … Continue reading My New Cake Stand
Gallimaufry
Oh, the tricks your mind can play!
Sometimes you think you've lived before All that you live today Things you do come back to youAs though they knew the wayOh, the tricks your mind can play! Lorenz Hart was writing about déjà vu, the feeling that one has previously lived through the present situation, but the mind can play other kinds of tricks. For … Continue reading Oh, the tricks your mind can play!
America’s Most Misspelled Words
Over on Language Log there’s a post on America's Most Misspelled Words. They did an analysis of Google search data using the following methodology: We used Google Trends to discover the most misspelled words and Ahrefs to find the number of searches. Americas most misspelled words can be discovered in Google Trends by searching for … Continue reading America’s Most Misspelled Words
Stupid Name Changes
When I was in college I came to the conclusion that the vast majority of the people in top management positions at most companies are truly awful people and quite stupid. Nothing I have learned since then has shaken me from that view, although learning that many of them are sociopaths does help to … Continue reading Stupid Name Changes
Ch-ch-ch-changes
The last few years that I was still working, my sleep schedule was pretty regular. I’d go to bed at 9:00 PM and get up at 4:00 AM. Even on weekends and my days off. Sometimes I’d stretch the bedtime to 10 o’clock or later if there was something on television that I really wanted … Continue reading Ch-ch-ch-changes
Value Size
There’s the Thera-Tears box, which proudly declares “Value Size” at the top. When one opens up the box one finds the actual Thera-Tears bottle. No packing materials, no instruction booklet, just the bottle. The box is a full inch taller than the bottle that’s inside it.
The Man or the Dog?
I started tinkering with this video several weeks ago. I wanted to make it a bit more elaborate but I just haven’t had the time. So it just has a couple interjections from me. There’s a show in Britain called Dogs Behaving Very Badly where Graeme Hall tries to help out people who are having problems … Continue reading The Man or the Dog?
Terrible, Terrible Notes
A little while ago I got to thinking about three different incidents in my life and how they might form the basis for a blog post. The more I thought about it though, the more I felt I should disguise the identities of the people involved, so I decided to write it up as a … Continue reading Terrible, Terrible Notes
Was It Really a Dream?
I looked at the clock and it was a few minutes after 3:00. In the morning. I had been wakened by a very rude noise. It was some sort of high pitched alarm-sounding type of sound. As best as I could remember it had played a short melody and then added three short high … Continue reading Was It Really a Dream?
Another Year, Another Thanksgiving
For those of us in the US of A it’s Thanksgiving Day. Let’s see. I guess I’m thankful that in 1980 I spied a notice for an obscure government test called the Professional and Administrative Career Examination or PACE. I took the test and it was a forgone conclusion that I’d do well as taking … Continue reading Another Year, Another Thanksgiving