Jan 28, 2020
It may be another year or two before I get a dog again, and a move to another neighborhood. Last night convinced me to take my walks in the daylight only. I live on a small enclosed block which is rem...
Jan 14, 2020
I don’t know how I completely missed reading about this Pittsburgh theft, which was discovered about a year and a half ago … but all the news is being repeated, because the 2 men charged with it a...
Dec 16, 2019
I need the holiday spirit to descend on me. Aside from some fun ordering online, it’s been a tangle of stressed-out people, and I just found out China’s internet blocks Yahoo email addresses. This...
Dec 8, 2019
My sister took me to see The Nutcracker at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater at Benedum Center. I loved it, with all the kids in colorful, satiny dresses in the home scenes — and then later, tiny ones dress...
Nov 7, 2019
Things you do only rarely can be fun. Recently I started baking a little bit, and a pineapple-honey coffeecake turned out really well. I think I’ll get some silicone muffin cups to bake in because t...
Oct 30, 2019
This happened the other day on a downtown street in Pittsburgh. A sinkhole opened up suddenly in the street. Luckily, only the driver and one passenger were on it at the time. The street will be clos...
Oct 25, 2019
Because online information is something that has to be interpreted, no matter how straightforward it seems, and you can easily be wrong about the whole thing, I’ve has some interesting mysteries pop...
Oct 22, 2019
Okay, this is something not earth-shattering — not even earth-nudging — to most people. But anyone who goes online should take note of it.If you tend to do a lot of Google searches, you might want...
Oct 7, 2019
In the men's room of the Main Street Station casino in downtown Las Vegas is a piece of the Berlin Wall, and urinals are attached to it. I guess this could be seen as an apt commentary on what the Ber...
Sept 18, 2019
Some things said in a discussion amongst domainers today, all in the comment section of a blog:— You’re allowed to offer a discount to Nazis if you want — In Hawaii if you are Japanese be carefu...
Sept 7, 2019
Eyesight is a wonderful thing. Mine changed for the worse all of a sudden and it was driving me crazy how blurry things were. Too much work on computer probably helped accelerate this. I tried changin...
Aug 25, 2019
There hasn’t been much rain lately, so it has been costing less to keep the lawn mowed. I made the mistake, a couple of weeks ago, of pulling vines from the rock wall with bare hands, and discovered...
Aug 5, 2019
We in domain sales pretty much predicted it: Epik, the registrar whose owner I’ve mentioned before, has just accepted the domain name for the site 8Chan, which left its old registrar because they ex...
July 25, 2019
Sometimes you get lightning inside your house. That happened yesterday after the landlord installed a defective sump pump that began sending small explosions through the electrical system of the entir...
July 15, 2019
Spent the day being confused by technology. Finally my amazon echo plays Latin music when I demand, reads me NPR news, and other tricks. But my apple accounts… it’s still not clear why I’m recei...
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