Musings Clean up your Inbox September 16, 2017 / September 27, 2017 by Dave OK, so a couple of ideas that are relatively new to me, and might be to other folks as well. Gmail will accept email addresses that are slightly different from your “real” address. You can add filters for any of the above, sending incoming emails to those specific addresses to specific labels, or the trash, […] Read more »
Musings Turns out I didn’t know how to tie my own shoes March 2, 2014 / March 3, 2014 by Dave I had a very odd experience last night. I’ve started running, and my shoes have untied themselves twice now while I’ve been on a run. It occurred to me that somebody might have some advice or a cheap product to improve this situation, so I did a little surfing. And what did I discover? Turns […] Read more »
Musings The Rules of Golf – Amendments for Seniors September 29, 2013 / October 11, 2013 by Dave Advertisements proclaim that golf scores can be lowered by purchasing new clubs, balls, shoes. etc. Since this is financially impossible for the average senior golfer, one stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment. A ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and placed on the fairway at a point […] Read more »
Musings Why doesn’t somebody develop a “shuffle” that works? March 28, 2013 / March 29, 2013 by Dave I have an android phone, an ipod, and itunes (and several other mp3-playing-capable programs) installed on various computers. None of them can shuffle songs worth beans, and it’s easy to see why. Shuffle, as it now exists on every platform I’ve seem, just puts the songs in random order. On some platforms (like my stupid […] Read more »
Musings Dolphins and PR March 5, 2013 by Dave The general opinion of dolphins is pretty positive. There are certainly exceptions, but that’s certainly the “usual” view – seen, for example, as opposed to the typical view of sharks. Now, I’m not saying I love sharks, but I do think it’s possible that dolphins are just more PR/media conscious than sharks are. For example, […] Read more »
Musings Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good in the World? February 9, 2013 by Dave There was a debate in 2009, hosted by Intelligence Squared UK, and available in full on YouTube. The topic was “Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good in the World?” and the debaters were Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry (against) and Ann Widdecombe, M.P. and John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja (for). It can’t have […] Read more »
Musings Celebrating Death September 11, 2012 / November 1, 2012 by Dave I realize that this is likely to offend some Americans, and maybe other people as well, but it’s been running around my head for some time. My intention isn’t really to offend, no matter what you might think, but I think the topic could use some airing. What I’m talking about is the parallel between […] Read more »
Musings Restless Legs July 25, 2010 / July 27, 2010 by Dave I just had a discussion with a friend about restless leg syndrome (or something like it) being brought on by sleeping pills. We’ve all (maybe) had that feeling when you’re drowsing off, not quite asleep, and you get jolted by some dream-motivated movement, even though you weren’t quite dreaming yet. I’m aware that this isn’t […] Read more »
Musings Facebook “friends” May 16, 2010 by Dave Anybody who knows me knows that I am not an avid facebook fan / user / whatever. I have an account which I check every six months or so, on the off chance that something important will have happened. Usually, not the case. Anyhow, I do have a suggestion that would make facebook a lot […] Read more »
Movies and TV Musings Frak! May 14, 2010 / May 15, 2010 by Dave As far as I know, Battlestar Galactica (the original one) was the origin of the word “frack” (replacing another well-known f-word). In the recent remake, it became “frak” (a more typical four-letter word). The use of frak in the show was never excessive (like the frakin’ use of the frakin’ f-word in a frakin’ lot […] Read more »