If you did not fall asleep in your English lit class or cut class to go for a ride in your hot rod, you may have come across this writing of Jonathan Swift and his book, A Modest Proposal. To save you the effort of looking it up, I will [..] Read more
THE AGE I LIVED IN Sometime after the Paleozoic era, I used to design medical instruments. Most of the instruments were one-off special purpose designs to support aerospace medicine research. Would you believe one of the designs were brainwave amplifiers to record implanted monkey brains while undergoing zero G stress [..] Read more
Thanks to my hard working Virtual Assistant, Kelly Johnson, you will get this blog at precisely 12:00:01 on April 1st. I am not sure if she stays up late and uses a stop watch, or if she just uses a special computer program. Sometimes it is hard to tell what [..] Read more
It was a year ago on the occasion of my 85th birthday that I wrote about how I was making an effort to upgrade my communication skills by placing the blame for my mistakes on everyone except me. That effort is progressing, but I still have much to learn and [..] Read more
Years ago when I went to Lakeside Amusement Park, I played a game called Whac-A-Mole. If you ever experienced it, you remember that you hit the mole that pops up and pound it back into its hole. As soon as you knock a mole back in its hole, another pops [..] Read more
