UK firemen called to rescue cow stuck up a tree

Here’s how I wasted my night yesterday, playing with Google Earth. Equator.kmz: I made my way around the globe at the equator, and this is the only thing I could see that was a monument of any kind — at  [more...]

Well, I did say that I wanted to try new things and make some life changes when I moved here, so when F. called to ask if I wanted to go hiking, I said, “… sure!” Oh, F. Well, F. is the guy I have been  [more...]

I found a cache of old cassette tapes last night, and this morning began listening to them — an exercise in nostalgia. One of the tapes held bits and pieces of some old episodes of Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home  [more...]