What are they Smokin?

I received and email from WhiteSmoke software today.  I get a daily mailing from them containing tips, tricks and specials. For some reason, this one caught my eye. Are they serious?  As you get older you allegedly write less and less?  Back in the 60s I certainly...

Challenging Assumptions

 In my email today is a message from the Buckminster Fuller institute announcing the winner of their 2009 Design Science Challenge. And, as was the case in 2007, I didn’t win.  Of course I didn’t enter this year, so that may have impacted the judges...

Original Copies?

In my closet is a large plastic container of “retired” T-shirts.   You see I have a sentimental attachment to the sentiments expressed on these too-worn-to-wear-again cotton symbols of my persona.   There are easily 4 dozen faded garments containing...

Pitching WOO HOO to Who’s Who

Pitch is defined as “to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position” but then it also means “to throw, fling, hurl, or toss”.  (Seems a bit oxymoronic) You can have perfect pitch, and you can pitch a perfect game.  The roof...

Considering Mutiny on the Charmin

On Saturday morning, I awoke to a plumbing incident and an apparently Spainish film with English subtitles.  I chose the latter.  It was called “Don’t Tempt Me” and starred Penelope Cruz as an agent of the Devil competing for the soul of sleazy boxer...