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Not a single Halloween visitor dropped by our domicile tonight. This is a culmination of a trend that started about 10 years ago, at which time we could count on at least three or four trick or treaters. As the visitors get fewer we, paradoxically, made a point of buying ever better candy for any […]

My voice has gone silent this week because yesterday I bought a new Mac Powerbook at the Apple Store in Farmington (we are not hip enough to rate on in this area). I spent the better part of the evening and into the wee hours last night transferring files from my old Mac to the […]

If you have tried to access this site in the last two days you were probably unsuccessful. This may have raised hopes in your breast that I would no longer be inflicting my ravings on an already beleaguered world. Alas, I must dash your hopes. The problem was not with me, but with the server, […]

The New York Times asks: Are the Red Sox Ready to Become the New Yankees?“. In a bit of sports writing that sounds, in places, like those articles we see so often in which Republicans like David Brooks give “well meant” advice to Democrats, William Rhoden of the Times warns of the dangers to the […]

There’s a cool new feature at the Itunes Store. Various colleges and universities have uploaded both audio and video content. My alma mater is among them, though truth to tell, its offerings are not that enticing. Stanford University, on the other hand, has full video and audio courses. I downloaded a video course on Theoretical […]