The Super-Smart Streaming Smartscreen
Reading Time: 4 minutes – FICTION – Streaming media and artificial intelligence enter the lives of the family that grew up — and apart — on television. Now what?
Read More The Super-Smart Streaming SmartscreenCategory: HUMOR
Bright moments from real life, satire, parody and other things to tickle the funny bone.
‘Living Here’ — Need some advice
Reading Time: 2 minutes – WRITING – The beginner error rectified, the first draft of the book comes to a more reasonable 200 pages. Or is it two 100-page books?
Read More ‘Living Here’ — Need some advice‘Living Here’ — Beginner Error
Reading Time: 2 minutes – WRITING – A first try at my first book weighs in at 3,219 pages. Apparently some editing is in order.
Read More ‘Living Here’ — Beginner ErrorThe Return of Schrödinger’s Kitty
Reading Time: 2 minutes – HUMOR – Schroedinger’s kitten has returned to lead us through further thought experiments, this time more sophisticated.
Read More The Return of Schrödinger’s KittyOn picking your own
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – Robert Frost tells of a weary farmer at the end of harvest. That farmer and this writer have a lot in common.
Read More On picking your ownHair today, gone tomorrow
Reading Time: 3 minutes – HUMOR – I’ve been losing hair for years, if not decades. But to have a whole fistful of it disappear onto the floor at once? That’s drastic.
Read More Hair today, gone tomorrowSchrödinger’s Kitty
Reading Time: 2 minutes – HUMOR – Is the cat alive or dead? Or less macabre: Is she sleeping or is she in trouble?
Read More Schrödinger’s KittyIn suspense…
Reading Time: 2 minutes – HUMOR – The message was clear as day: “Your Social Security Number has been suspended because of suspicious activity. To restore it, press 1.”
Read More In suspense…Hot Stuff!
Reading Time: < 1 minute – HUMOR -Our new portable air conditioner is scheduled to arrive Thursday by Fireball Transport. How appropos.
Read More Hot Stuff!The Birds and the Bees
Reading Time: 2 minutes – HUMOR -We noticed, on our first tours of the house, the bird nests. “That’s great!” said I. “We love the birds.”
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