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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Life’s Little Victories
I’m talking little victories here, but at my age, any victory is worth celebrating, especially over a problem that has been a bother all my life. It started out while I was shivering in the shower, waiting for the water … Continue reading
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Baseball’s Evaluation Of Talent
“Twist And Scout,” by Louis Menand. The New Yorker, 4/8/2017. Professional baseball has to at least try to measure the performance of the players they are paying such big money for. Are they worth it? Would someone cheaper be just … Continue reading
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Do-It-Yourself Weather Forecasting
Someone once said you can do a decent job of predicting the weather by simply saying tomorrow will be the same as today. I can do that one better. A couple of years ago, my son gave me for Christmas … Continue reading
A Common Magazine Scam
I used to get many magazine and newspaper subscriptions, but now I get almost none because I cannot keep up with the schemes of the publishers. I admit they are smarter than I am. Here’s how the most common one … Continue reading
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The Decline of TV as We Know It
“Investors Pummel TV Companies On Ad Woes,” by Steven Perlberg and Shalini Ramachandran. The Wall Street Journal, 8/7/2015. (This is still another old, unpublished posting, recently discovered, but is still appropriate.) “More than $35 billion in market value was wiped … Continue reading
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Pralines
Ask your spouse what pralines are. If your spouse is a man, chances are they will have no idea. If your spouse is a woman, she will wonder why you are asking such an obvious question. I recently learned myself … Continue reading
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Riding the Ceramic Honda
TV commercials have sunk to a new low: The current Linzess commercial shows first a man, then a woman, sitting on a toilet, aimlessly looking around, waiting for something to happen. True, they are shown separately and from the waist … Continue reading
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Stop the Bleed
“Under the Gun,” by Paige Williams. The New Yorker, 4/8/2019. Times have changed. Just a few years ago (well, maybe more than a few), and for several years after, I was a Red Cross First Aid, CPR, and AED instructor … Continue reading
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Spelling App
A description of a spelling app for my tablet (“Correct Spelling”) on Play Store says: Finding the spellings of difficult words or phrases is not a worry know. I’m still worried. RWalck@Verizon.net
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Lansdowne-Aldan High School -- Class of 1954 