Trial by Combat

This is a no-spoiler review of Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel.” Set in 14th Century Normandy in the wake of a European outbreak of the […]

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Tonight in Food Porn

Offered for your consideration, a sous vide New York Strip. I place the steak, dusted with Montreal steak seasoning, in a zip lock type plastic […]

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iPhone Box Cats

Susan ordered some Swedish ginger snaps from the World Market, and they arrived yesterday. She opened the box under the watchful eyes of Kedi and […]

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This Week in COVID

The COVID Apocalypse continues, albeit with a lower toll in lives than it visited upon humanity last year. Some of that is due to acquired […]

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“This really chaps my ass”

One of my brother’s favorite expressions when he was a college student and later a medical student, was “That really chaps my ass.” A decade […]

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Timekeepers

I’m thinking of clocks and calendars. In our earlier years, when we were students or parents or employees/workers or more than one of these, our […]

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“Q”

These days, Q is most often mentioned in the context of a conspiracy theory – Q-Anon. In 1982, Q was a movie about the emergence […]

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If it’s good for the Goose

I have followed Pope Francis’ pontificate with interest despite my being neither a Catholic nor a Christian. To me, the Pope is a quasi-political figure […]

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Was it the same possum?

Crepuscular and nocturnal denizens of the urban green spaces cross our deck and backyard every evening and night. Sometimes, while watching TV in the living […]

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Wireless

If you are a computer nerd like me or an engineering geek, you likely have a pile of vintage computing gear stacked up somewhere in […]

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