The 8-Track Player

This great article on the life and times of Columbia House reminded me of a strange period of time when I was in high school.

Like many people I discovered rock music when I was in high school. Sure, I’d had a few 45 rpm records with some top 40 hit like “Waterloo” by ABBA, [...]

Loren Ipsum

The term “Lorum ipsum” may be unfamiliar to some. Roughly speaking, it’s nonsense text in Latin used in designing graphics, often for webpages. It’s especially useful when combined with photographs or illustrations, as it enables an overview of the page before the real text is included. Not surprisingly, Wikipedia gives a much more thorough description [...]

How to Turn a Right Handed Pair of Scissors into a Left Handed Pair

Easy, just beam up from the Halkan planet during an ion storm and come aboard the “mirror” Enterprise!

Actually there is another way that really works, but the real message here is about examining things that we take for granted during our day-to-day lives. First off, what makes a pair of scissors “handed” in the [...]