Anybody know what’s up with hiveblocks.com? It’s been mostly offline for weeks now.

And I can just imagine the barristas having a touch of Orwell's waiter in Down and and Out.... A lifetime ago when I worked as a room service waiter in a large hotel, I thumbtacked a photocopied page from

And those prices... Going back further, in 1970 my 8th grade science teacher bought a Ford Maverick for $1,995. This ad doesn’t mention it, but the car came equipped with a small toolkit so you could do

Of course, I’m sitting on my butt while reading this post. I will get 10,000 steps today, I will.

Thanks to all for your contributions to a good cause!

In U.S. sports Halls of Fame, it’s almost as if there’s an unwritten rule. Once you’re in, you’re in, we won’t kick you out. But get caught before that, and you won’t be inducted. O.J. Simpson murdered

We’ve got two pets. Lucy (Lulu, Lucifer, Snufflepig) is a two-year-old British Labrador with boundless energy. Bootsie (Boots, The Prince of Darkness) is a 17-year-old part-Siamese indoor-outdoor cat who’s

I don't want to go on the cart. I feel fine.

I was a better than average downhill skier and passable tennis player in my younger days and a very mediocre hurdler (typically coming in fourth or fifth in 8-man races) in high school. My son played

If you could solve one problem you see in the world right now, which would it be? Extremes in wealth inequality. I’d wave my magic wand and Gini coefficients would be cut in half. There’d still be rich

…the Rwanda plan could go pear shaped. Who came up with that asinine idea? Can I presume it’s survived legal challenges only because the UK is no longer part of the EU? Likely abandoned after a Labour

I need to take more screenshots. 😅

what would you say the three most important skills or things to have would be and why? Situational awareness. A very broad term that might cover everything from recognizing that the feces is about to hit

Not my meme but, FWIW, I tend to think that a fusion arsenal is useless. Now that the nuclear genie is out of the bottle, a fission deterrence is de rigueur for major and regional powers. But fusion arsenals

One’s a Republican, the other a Democrat. So, maybe a chance for it? The Democrat is a backbencher, but the Republican is Chief Deputy Whip.

The Fourth Amendment of the constitution guarantees citizens the right to privacy, but the government doesn't seem to care about silly little details like the legal document upon which it was founded.

This American is jealous. We briefly nationalized our railways during and just after WW1: With the exception of the northeast corridor, there’s currently not much passenger rail in the United States.