The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a website dedicated to preserving the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronic equipment. Dot matrix printers. Dial-up internet. The Windows 95 startup music. All the…

I learned a new word this week thanks to one of my favorite newsletters, Numlock News: Backronym Definition: An acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out a particular word or words…

Just for the record: Climate change is accepted as a dangerous reality by all reasonable people. Democrats and Republicans alike. In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its summary report on the…

An 18-year-old hacker from Oxford has been sentenced to indefinite confinement after a series of astounding cybercrimes. While on bail for hacking Nvidia and the phone company, the hacker’s laptop was confiscated, and he was…

A student asked me, “Why would anyone start smoking? It just means you’ll have fewer friends.” It’s a good point. Though smokers and nonsmokers don’t always segregate themselves from one another, it’s often the case.…

I was punched in the face – twice – in a dream last night. Both times, I argued that I had been sucker-punched, but in both cases, my combatants disagreed. They claimed that since we…

Years ago, a principal was running my school, and he was a monster. A narcissist of the highest order. We had no affection for each other, and we made it abundantly clear, both in action…

Years ago, on the way to Florida, my best friend and I played the “Best of All-Time” game, in which competitors must argue for the best of all time in a variety of categories: Movies.…

When Darth Vader is chasing Luke Skywalker down the trench of the Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope, he notes that “the Force is strong with this one.” Shouldn’t he be more alarmed…

Every month, I report the progress of my yearly goals to monitor progress (or the lack thereof) and hold myself accountable.   The following are the results from February 2024. PERSONAL FITNESS 1. Don’t die.…