In honor of Douglas Adams

How did I miss this? Evidently, the lowly nickel has been redesigned — several times — and I still never got one nor saw one. This spring, the reverse of the nickel was redesigned to feature the Indian Peace  [more...]

I did a double take this morning when tuning in Good Morning America – evidently, there is a new measurement of temperature. Just how do you calculate wind chill on an infinite temperature?

Standing at the doors to the backyard, coughing my brains out, I noticed it was snowing. Sort of. My gaze moved up the birch trees in the backyard where there are dozens of birds enjoying a meal of the fuzzy seed pod  [more...]