I am not an academic, or at least not now. I did a stint for about 1 ½ years in the early 80’s, found it wasn’t for me, and went on to have a comfortable career as a clinical doc in a small town in Maine. I continued to teach in our local family medicine … Read more
This label is from a cat scratching post. You know, one of those things made out of corrugated cardboard glued together, sits on the ground. The little beasties love the damn things and I believe to some extent protect furniture. I direct your attention to the second paragraph, where we encounter a product safety warning … Read more
What else can I say? Quaker Oatmeal Squares are back. Apparently for some time; we just didn’t know it. This fills a great void and restores my faith in American manufacturing might and democratic institutions.
If the United States’ system of paying for health care is so broken, so corrupt that someone who murders a health insurance CEO is treated as a folk hero, can anyone (other than an insurance executive or shareholder) explain to me why a government-run single-payer system would be worse?
Highest praise–I wish I had thought of this. I’d provide the original website where I saw it, but I don’t remember. It was so easy to replicate I didn’t record the URL. Port forwarding is dangerous from a security standpoint. However, it is necessary to penetrate the firewall to accept connection requests that originate outside … Read more
I’m over 70, and I’m a geek. Always have been (A geek. Over 70 only the last couple of years). I admit it. When I was younger, Motorola made some of the coolest electronics out there. Most of my pagers when I was in training were Motorolas. My phone used to be a Motorola (until … Read more
Like I said in the post about installing WordPress, you will probably need a dynamic DNS update client. What does this service do? Your ISP provider has only so many IP addresses. Not all customers are online at the same time. If you log off and don’t use your internet connection for a bit, and … Read more
I decided I’d like to blog. I have ideas and some are worth sharing; others not so much. I’ll try and keep the latter to myself. However, I thought the writing would be fun, as would the technical challenge of maintaining the server. When Eileen had her music studio, I hosted her website from a … Read more
We recently broke a food bowl that Beau and Bella use for their wet food treats. Eileen, being a good cat mother, went out and bought a couple of new appetizer plates. Results were fascinating. Typically, the cats come for their wet food in the afternoon spontaneously. If they don’t, we clink the plates together … Read more