The Adventures of Roberta X

We got off to a later start than I wanted but made it to the Columbus Hamfest before it was all gone. One guy had a very nice Deluxe model...

I'm off to the Columbus (Indiana) Hamfest -- an amateur-radio swapmeet. In the meantime, there's a link at Retrotechnologist t...

See, here's the scene: y'drive your SUV vehicle up to the ATM machine; when you enter your PIN number while looking at the LED-diode...

Not the dreadful menu of "one from Column A (again!) or one of four from Column C," or even the various a la cart improbables, the...

And I didn't have to cook it! Last night, Tam and I went to Pei Wei Asian Diner , a fairly recent addition at Glendale shopping center....

Yeah, why not? Hooded sweatshirts have been politicized, tennis shoes/trainers were long, long ago and a whole generation of Americans took...

In order to be a Good Samaritan, somebody's got to already be layin' in the ditch beat half to death when you happen by. The Sa...

A bunch of dinosaur farmers, bulldoggers and recent claimers of hagship, with their hagseed yammering in the rear seat like performing polar...

Trayvon Martin's mother has trademarked the two most-used catchphrases that use her son's name. Really don't know quite how to ...

It appears the City-County Council is considering climbing aboard the Fire Frank Straub bandwagon ; he was initially approved by a 16-13 vot...

I watch the news and look at the ijits all around me and I think, "Life is too short for this nonsense." And it is. It's all...

I tried to keep my fool mouth shut -- what do I know that those closer to the scene do not? Anyone who tells you the outcome was anything bu...