The Adventures of Roberta X

     I missed a couple of doses of my anti-inflammatory this past week, and maybe I did a little too much awkward lifting on Trash Night las...

     Through misadventure, misjudgement and incompetence, the United States has led the way to a global shortage of diesel fuel.  Prices hav...

     These have been a busy two days. Both cats had early-morning vet appointments, Holden on general principles and to schedule teeth-clean...

     "Lay down with dogs, get up with a job at the FBI," shouldn't be a thing, but here we are.  2026 is the gift that keeps o...

     I bought a filtering water pitcher, and the reason is--      City water tastes pretty lousy if it sits for more than a few minutes.  I...

     Not the terrible thing that was done to him.  I wrote at the time and I'll say it again: nobody has that coming.  Certainly not a g...

     Data centers are the abandoned Kmarts and dead malls of tomorrow -- and tomorrow is right around the corner.

     Politicians and media will be pulling out out their hair shirts and weeping hankies, and look, it was  a terrible day, an unexpected bl...

      Holden still can't grasp that his adoptive mommies are relatively fragile.  He sits on the typewriter shelf of my desk, and if he ...

     Oh, it's crude.  And it's not possible, not to mention illegal.  But it's absolutely an example of how the man works: the P...

     It's junk science, too: "A.I.," which is certainly artificial but has yet to demonstrate actual intelligence, is going to...

     It's harder and harder to jump back in the hopper of the daily grind.  I'm not sure if I'm more hopeful or more worried abo...