When someone says technology what do you picture?  Computers, cellphones, DVDs, whirling gadgets with LED lights and beeping sounds? Those things are certainly slick, and let me tell you, I love beeping LED lights (except when its the low battery or no signal light on my phone).  The thing we forget to think about is [...]

Let’s just put this out there, I am kind of a big dork, so the things I read about are a bit on the dorky side.  One of the things that caught my eye lately was an article in Popular Mechanics http://www.popularmechanics.com/breakthrough09/ .  The article was talking about a number of innovations and one theme [...]

So I am making this post from the road. I am spending a few days in the wonderful realm of Brooklyn Heights. This was a change of plans from what I had expected to happen, which was spending a weekend in Michigan visiting one of my sisters and seeing the Detroit Tigers play in game [...]

Ever listen to Jazz music?  I sure hope not because Jazz music blows. It is a universal fact that musicians can do whatever the hell they want and they generally do when they are off stage.  But when onstage there is a script that every act must follow including the following bits. Crowd participation -  [...]

Everybody knows that diesel cars are sweet.  When I say sweet, I mean neat. Did you know that you could pour almost anything into a diesel engine’s tank and it will still run like a champ!  Everything from Vegetable oil used in the friers of the nastiest restaurants to melted down GI Joes action figures.  [...]