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Gnarly! One of the oldest living organisms on the planet Slate has a nice piece on a biologist who, like our friend pictured above, is rooting for immortality. That reminded…

I took my first Krav Maga course today. Yikes! I’m in rather good shape (yeah, yeah…for a man my age) but I was ready to throw up after the exertion…

I just got a cool catalogue from a company called Mindware, which offers “the very best in brainy toys and games.” Uncle Tom will be ordering a few items for…

With my niece and nephews now old enough to have their own children and with various friends having successfully reproduced, I’m buying lots of children’s gifts for the holidays. The…

I just learned how to post little advertisements into my site. Very nice. I’ll have to ask my friends at Laissez Faire Books if they can do that, too.

With my neighbors as training wheels (and in exchange for letting them ride, too), I took my Segway out for practice and a spin around the neighborhood. It feels pretty…

I’m eagerly looking forward to the arrival of my new Segway on November 2. I’m not looking forward to voting, which will be, at best, a distasteful act. Gut prediction:…

I recently bought a new Motorola V600 cell phone, as my old one was not up to what I needed. The new one has text messaging, Bluetooth, and a built-in…

I suppose that after my comments on books, debates about the public good, creepy anti-Semitism, and so on, it may be appropriate for me to make a Segway to a…