The Adventures of Roberta X

   I slept in, did a lot of laundry and worked around the house.  Managed to make Swedish pancakes for brunch and a second iteration of Frid...

     Yesterday evening I happened to find myself in possession of a couple of large green tomatoes -- never you mind just how -- along with ...

     Since "nuking it from orbit" proved to have near-disastrous fallout, I'm struggling with my allergies the hard way: OTC a...

     No, it's not the President, for once.      Whole Foods CEO (and bright green more-or-less libertarian) John Mackey professes skep...

     ...I'm sick again.  Or something.  Allergies, I suppose.  Sinus is mildly back despite the OTC nostrum, which has side effects: I a...

     They're selling tiny printers now.  I guess they have been around awhile, gadgets not much larger than a cellular phone that spit o...

     Our grocery store has a nice deli counter.  They often have small pork roasts in their hot food case, which I'll build supper aroun...

     I don't often recommend articles from The New Yorker ; while the writing is of indisputably high quality, the election of Donald Tr...

     Woke up early, got ready for the gun show, felt awful, didn't go.  I was -- and remain -- dizzy, congestion-haunted and out of it. ...

     I've been on the 3:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. shift all this week, which I find difficult.  Sleep is elusive, concentration fragmentary,...

     Some of the people I encounter online, including a few friends, have taken a particular dislike to the Electoral College.  They think i...

     As a practical matter, the spacetime "bubble" used for faster-than-light travel has seventeen dimensions, one less than the ...