The Adventures of Roberta X

It's been a good time for German bunkers of late: untouched WW II bunkers showed up in Denmark, after having been buried in the dunes ...

Vide . ...But I'm still right here at Roseholme Cottage, catching up on my laundry and correspondence and cat-sitting. About time; I...

Ever see MAKE magazine? They have an interesting shopping-type website ! (I added this to my wishlist). The various electrtronics k...

Seems a Sitemeter change "improvement" found a bug in Internet Ex-plodder . All right then. This is one of the problems with comp...

Just like Hitler's Germany, Yugoslavia or the old Soviet Union, they've got their Olympics -- and it's obvious how well that wor...

Which term do you use? It had not really dawned on me until today, when some of my co-workers were reliving their High School days, but the ...

For whatever reason -- I blame the eclipse -- Internet Exploder is h-o-s-e-d tonight.  Crash crash crash.  Finally gave up and opened Safari...

It appears the Antikytheria Mechanism had an "Olympics Time" hand . (Not to mention a built-in manual). And here I thought having ...

The old dead white guys were right. They're not a good idea. I'm agin' 'em. If the States each had their own citizen militia...

You know what's worse than having nothing to say? Worse (-ish) than writer's block? Having things to write but not having the time...

India's Bajaj Auto, the clever folks who made my scooter, offer several motorcycles, including a "cruiser." The Avenger has a...

I suppose this might be a parable but it's not. Up at the Skunk Works North Campus, one of our drainage swales* has decided to become a ...