Borepatch

The Silicon Graybeard (among others) links to a really interesting video from SpaceX about Starship: Something that needs to be shared is a...

... not as we are, but as we would like to be.  Wolfgang is most noticeable by his absence - no greeting at the door when I come home, no ca...

If Ike wants a friend in Washington, he should get a dog. - Harry Truman, on Eisenhauer's 1953 Inauguration It was 2012.  I was done wit...

Glen Filthie asked for an update on Wolfgang, and so here we go.  His back legs have been getting increasingly tangled up.  Yesterday he fel...

"If you think this is the time, I'll support that decision." His vet said that today.  Crap. I took this picture seven years a...

One thing that I have not been able to figure out is who would benefit from the US sending 8,500 (or 50,000 - the number keeps changing) US ...

Holy crap!  This is breaking news from Donald Trump: For years, the same feeling has swept you along, oppressed you, shamed you: a strange a...

There are a ton of people moving here to Florida, and a lot of them are from New York.  Blogger Don Surber has a comment that I need to repr...

So I'm back from my trip to silicon valley.  I've been working remotely for a number of years, and while there's a very Jetsons-...

There's a new Medieval Faire in Myakka City, which The Queen Of The World and I will probably go check out.  If you want Medieval - real...

I originally posted this eight years ago, but it bears repeating again. The citizens of the United States have a different relationship with...

There's building stockpiles of food and supplies to get you through bad times, and then there's building a collection of technologie...

Back in the Middle Ages, books weren't printed (the printing press hadn't yet been invented).  Instead, they were laboriously copied...