Month: April 2019

Miscellany & Other

I read where a British Airways plane bound for Dusseldorf landed in Edinburgh instead.  Something about an incorrect flight plan. Which got me to thinking.  Someday, Hackers will do this to all kinds of flight plans and we will be […]

Words to Use, or Not

PHUBBING.  This occurs when a person pulls out his or her phone and begins to use it  in front of the person he or she is talking to. Usages: I have been phubbed, He, she or it has been phubbed. […]

More wisdom from the TV

If you are taken into a police interrogation room; Lawyer up! (This I learned from watching endless crime shows) The U.S. Tax code is 4 times as long as Tolstoy’s War And Peace. If you are wondering if that bird on […]

Genius, Good from Bad, Bad from Bad,

The other day I heard, on the radio, about a man who got bonked on the head and the result was he could play the piano. He had never played a piano before the bonking. It has been diagnosed as […]

Tuna, $ Millions, Workers, What’s Good for the Country

A Bluefin Tuna sold for $3.1 million in Tokyo the other day. A painting that most experts think might have been painted by L. Da Vinci sold for $450 million a while back.  What is going  on here? Some people […]