The Adventures of Roberta X

     "Labs" have become common in modern medicine.  At least once a year, you skip breakfast and go get a blood draw, and at your ...

     It strikes me as wildly unlikely.  Nevertheless, there it is: I have been on this planet for sixty-six years as of today.      Here...

    "Maybe I'll come up with something for Saturday," I said.      What I came up with was to just about do myself in.  I...

     So, not much of a blog post.  Tomorrow will be busy, too, but maybe I'll come up with something.

     Still in recovery from the awful cold, I have been taking allergy pills and using cough syrup as needed.  This has had exactly the effe...

 Talking, animated paper clip with big googly eyes: "IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL TRYING TO FIND A JOB HELPING COMPU...

     The air conditioner froze up overnight, yesterday (if that makes sense -- I discovered it night before last), and I babied it along unt...

     I have written in the past that I didn't much care if the 1% were living like emperors, if that meant the rest of us were living li...

     I felt so much better yesterday that I did a heap of laundry, hacked away the the back yard jungle, and cooked a big meal on the grill:...

     It seems to me that one of the biggest problems with macroeconomic theory is not the various and sundry theories nearly so much as it i...

     Every time I blink, politics gets more stupid.  I don't understand the appeal, but we're not too far away from the Heinlein det...

     I never have had much patience with Congress, but I always figured it was their job to try my patience: to crank the wheels of governme...