On summer day in Santa Barbara I was walking through a local cemetery, when I happened across the grave of a cofounder of the large, hair products company, then headquartered in the San Fernando Valley, at which I worked back in the day. Sitting at a nearby bench to enjoy the warm breeze and the […]
(Not So) Deep Thoughts
How Much Turkey Do Americans Eat, Anyway??
So “the Totally Awesome Book of Useless Information” by Noel Botham (2012) is a bother. Some of the information is worse than useless; it’s just wrong. A good example is on page 38, where it’s printed that “It is estimated that Americans eat 10 million tons of turkey on Thanksgiving Day.” I did the arithmetic. […]
Stub Typewriter Post
Typewriter post coming soon! It will be about the advantages of writing content on a manual typewriter, as opposed to a computer. Also there will be a discussion of the history of the machine I’m using.
Sue Dominates the Reception
Yes, it was pretty impressive being hosted by a T. rex named Sue at a Chicago reception for the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists in late August of 2011. Actually, we don’t know if Sue is male or female, so I’ll set the preferred pronouns to they, them, and their. Their […]