I’m a reasonably good automobile mechanic and a very good computer programmer. Put the two together, however, and I got stymied by our 2003 Dodge van. Here’s the backstory. I started learning to be a mechanic on the remote cattle ranch where I grew up. If you live at the far end of nowhere, you…

Since my age starts with “seventy”, I’m in what I call my “Middle Youth”. I figure that “Late Youth” starts at seventy-five, so I’ve got a few years until then. And as befits a man in his middle youth, I’ve been giving some thought to the idea and the reality of death. Both my parents…

Last year during the election campaign, the servers at the Democratic National Committee were penetrated by still unknown actors. From early on, I’ve held that the Russian Government did NOT hack the DNC computer. I have not seen any evidence that says otherwise. Here are two equally probable Russian suspects with no ties to Vladimir…

[This entire post was imported from here, so that I could cut out the swearing for a friend. Plus it’s a great post. Everything that follows this paragraph is not mine, but is from that author. I knew they were fakes already. When I read these ladies claims about a school of tiger sharks attacking…

My thanks to those who have asked if we are OK given the ongoing fires in our area. Fortunately, we are in lots of smoke depending on the wind, but we’re a ways from the fires. Here’s today’s fire map. We live about where the “d” in “Bodega Bay” is on the left of the…