Month: March 2023

• I Cannot Picard

  March 11, 2023

  entertainment, television

  I’m a huge Star Trek fan from way back. I’ve watched every episode of the original series so many times that you can show me a two-second clip of any show and I can tell you which one it is. I stood in line outside the movie theater in freezing temps to see Star Trek:… Read.

• vocab

  March 11, 2023

  books

  From “The Joys of Yiddish” by Leo Rosten: To help you distinguish kvitch from kvetch from krechtz (a salubrious set of niceties) I offer these observations: You can kvitch sedately, charmingly, out of happiness; to kvetch is always negative, bilious, complaining; and to krechtz is to utter grating noises of physical discomfort or spiritual woe.… Read.

• stretched

  March 7, 2023

  Sparky

  Sparky struggles to get comfortable on the sofa, poor fella. Read.

• Jam Package Overkill

  March 6, 2023

  food & drink, random idiocy

  All this packaging to send six jars of jam through the mail. Seems excessive. Read.

• The Camping Thing: The Rebirth

  March 5, 2023

  camping, hobby

  The Camping Thing needs a complete do-over. Time to get started on that. Read.

• “I am your density.”

  March 4, 2023

  daily drivel, Life & Death, random idiocy

  Writing prompt: Do you believe in fate/destiny? No. But also, maybe. Depends. Read.