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It is with sadness and some puzzlement that I report a development on the road-trip front: My camera appears to be dead from unspecified and un-diagnose-able internal injuries. The Olympus D-580 Zoom is, with slight exaggeration, the BESTEST point-and-shoot digital … Continue reading →

September 16, 2015: “In this school house on March 20, 1854, was held the first mass meeting in this country that definitively and positively cut loose from old parties, and advocated a new party under the name of Republican.” In … Continue reading →

December 30, 2005: Restored Apollo-era Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Today Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration — Jan. 20, 1993 — marks the halfway point between the moon landing and the present day. Starting now, events … Continue reading →

*deep, exasperated sigh* After 15 years as OS X, Apple’s Mac operating system is getting a new name. In the future, it will only answer to macOS, or its latest California-inspired codename, Sierra. The format makes it more consistent with … Continue reading →

I said it before and I’m saying it again: What Michael Bay and his henchmen have done to the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise is criminal. Nearly $200 million criminal, but still. With the sequel rolling around, this time, you … Continue reading →

September 14, 2015 Alaska, Wisconsin, is an unincorporated village consisting of a post office and a couple other buildings on WI 42 near Kewaunee. Since 2009, when I crossed Delaware and Nevada off my list, Alaska and Hawaii remain the … Continue reading →

May 8, 1986: Preschool circus at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church basement in Traer. Event #1 on family videotape #1. The church building has been expanded since then, but this is how I remember the basement, from preschool to Scout meetings. … Continue reading →

With the news that millennials now outnumber baby boomers, I want to pass along this Huffington Post piece that points out not all millennials (and late X’ers) are created equal. I’ve thought for years that Generation Y should be broken … Continue reading →

I had back-to-back interesting number issues while filling my gas tank recently. (I also have a gas tank that refuses to let the pump run until it gets full, but that’s another issue.) First, I got caught in a “nine-tenths” … Continue reading →

May 8, 2009: US 138 is an artifact of the early US highway system, when US 38 went across Nebraska instead of US 6. Today, US 138 spends about 11 miles in the Cornhusker State and has its east end … Continue reading →