It seemed a simple request: “I’d like to add a new landline phone number at my house.”
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
It’s Halloween Eve. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” Shakespeare penned. Thursday evening it will look as though he were writing about us.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
We have completed our annual ode to gridlock known as the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival. The thoughts of the young and young-at-heart now turn to October’s Big Day.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Wednesday, October 09, 2019
Last year I wrote about a rarely mentioned phase in Earth‘s biohistory, the Jackassic Era. It was a time when huge, antisocial monsters roamed and ruled the planet. Eventually, their…
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
There was a time when people were happy to receive phone calls. Today, a ringing telephone has become an assault on our privacy and sanity. Telemarketers and robo-callers are taking …
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
You hear a lot about artificial intelligence, “AI” for short. It’s a process of unnatural selection toward a world in which our homes, cars, refrigerators and trash compactors are sm…
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Every so often, it’s healthy to stretch beyond our natural abilities and do something completely out of character. We run the risk of making a fool out of ourselves, but, in my case,…
Wednesday, August 08, 2018
Sixth-grade teacher Hector Nuñez was posing a classic algebra “word problem” to his class, the one with two trains leaving distant stations at the same time. To give the exercise som…
Thursday, July 19, 2018
There's a certain sense of freedom that comes from working without pay.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
It’s Mother’s Day this coming weekend, and time to remember those little sayings moms have. Such as:
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
It must be Thanksgiving in Corporate America, because big business’ motto is “gobble, gobble, gobble.” In healthcare, biotech, oil and insurance, the urge to merge is driving the num…
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Some businesses seem reluctant to talk with their customers. If, as the saying goes, “the customer’s always right,” these businesses will never know what’s right.
Friday, April 13, 2018
I wasn’t exactly naked, as the contestants are in the Discovery Channel’s heavily pixelated survival show, “Naked and Afraid,” but was mildly concerned about my attire. It’s not ofte…
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Twas the night before Easter, when out ‘mongst the trees, one sick Easter Bunny had sneeze after sneeze.