Category: daily drivel
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physical
I had a physical on Friday, mostly because my last physical was just before I retired from the Air Force seven years ago. Kids, don’t try this at home. You should probably see a doctor a little more regularly than your Unka Dave does. It was the whole kit and kaboodle, starting with an exhaustive… Read.
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spirit
Oh, what a night! We spent yesterday evening at the Edgewater Hotel, soaking up some delicious spirits at Distill America, the annual exhibition of local (and a few not-so-local) distillers. I was very pleasantly surprised by how many distillers are right here in the Midwest. Off the top of my head, I can think of… Read.
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collapse
OMFG: Some Wall Street investors made money as the mortgage market boomed; others profited when it fell apart. Having reaped big gains during both of those turns, Greg Lippmann, a former star trader at Deutsche Bank, is now catching the next upswing: buying the same securities built from mortgages that he bet against before the… Read.
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bell
Modern diesel locomotives have working brass bells on them, same as steam engines from the old days. Nobody knows why – it’s probably because there’s an ancient federal law on the books that nobody’s bothered to delete, or it could be just because it’s an old railroad tradition. Instead of being mounted on the top… Read.
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dating
As we were settling into a staff meeting this afternoon, Carolann made reference to a pop tune that I didn’t recognize. Aaron caught the reference, though, and commented on it, to which Carolann replied, “Yeah, I’m guess I’m dating myself with that one.” “It’s Valentine’s Day,” Aaron answered. “If you can’t date yourself, who can… Read.
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daisies
The laundry in Our Humble O-Bode is a small alcove off the dining room, just big enough to hold a washer and a dryer, hidden behind a pair of bi-fold doors, or they were until one set of the doors fell off a while back. A quick inspection immediately following the falling-off revealed that the… Read.
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pnk’d
I had no idea there were so many steampunkers in the Madison area until last night, when we went to the latest Adult Swim at the Madison Children’s Museum. I knew it was going to have a steampunk theme, but I figured maybe that meant the guys on the staff would show up wearing top… Read.
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bonk
I was reading a chapter of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 last night and ran across the name “Adrien van der Donck.” Isn’t that fantastic? He was in New York back when the place was lousy with Dutch people and was known as the New Netherlands and, later or earlier (I’m… Read.
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darn
I hobbled around all day because of a hole in the toe of one sock. What sense does it make that the absence of something in my shoe would make me limp? Read.
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useful
Finally! Somebody’s teaching robots to do something useful! There are probably a lot of people who would look at this robot from a lab at UC-Berkeley and the first thought that would pop into their heads would be something like, “Well, that’s typical for an elitist institution, wasting time and money on building robots to… Read.
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