The Adventures of Roberta X

     Ahh, art .  Paper, 25 cents.  Ink, a dime, more if he bought the good stuff, which is likely.  Coming up with the idea and the design--...

     Yesterday was interesting--      People in my trade are notoriously difficult to sell to; we poke around at the machinery, ask diffic...

     It would only confuse you to admit I started with a little sweet Italian sausage; but it was only by seconds.  A bitta that gets joined...

     Off to an Engineering Conference of the offsite/professional-networking variety, at which Salesmen will entice me and my peers in the h...

     It was sententious nonsense when Harry Stinson said it in 1929, when he yanked the State Department's share of funding for the U. S...

     There's something comforting about an egg fried with a small slice of prosciutto on top, then flipped over and finished with a slic...

     Indianapolis dried-bean packaging icon (and lone holdout in the vast land-holdings of Lucas Oil Stadium) N. K. Hurst is 75 years old ...

     Rannie the cat leaps onto the pulled-out typewriter shelf on the right side of my big oak desk, cooing ingratiatingly: "Woo-Ooooo....

     A new, seasonal story at I Work On A Starship: The Halloween Bot .      It came lurching and clanking down the road, trailing a thin...

     Headed for lunch Saturday, friends noticed my Baofeng UV-5R handheld HT and asked about it.  "There's an article on my blog,...

     When goods can't cross borders, ideas will.  Also 3-D printer files:      UK police seize parts from 3D-printed gun .       ......

     No, really .      Not the worst idea I've seen -- who wants to get blown up? Who wants gas rates to go up because the utility is ...