Last week, USA Today’s Doyle Rice wrote a story about a research project in which I was involved. Rice did what journalists do. He got wind of a topic that interested him, tracked down and interviewed the lead researcher, got and read the paper, interviewed others for perspective, and wrote a story. Four days later, …
This is only a test.
I find the combinatorics of language simply staggering. In today’s Zippy the Pinhead, Bill Griffith has a character say: “When Mark Twain is picture smoking a pipe, he certainly looks contented.” A Google search shows that not only has that sentence never been committed to the Googleverse, but that a simple five word subset has …
A reader raises an interesting question about the Easy-Do Parties lady: Why is she alone in the kitchen, and why do the party guests in the background appear to be on fire? Nora, an expert in electricity and people being on fire (or, perhaps, the magical arts) suggests that the Easy-Do Parties lady (her name …
From Danger Room: “Weather modification was used successfully in Viet Nam to (among other things) hinder and impede the movement of personnel and material from North Viet Nam to South Viet Nam,” notes a Naval Air Warfare Weapons Division – China Lake research proposal, released last month through the Freedom of Information Act. But “since …
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I conducted the latest edition of my heralded Inkstain Yard Sign Survey this afternoon. The survey area this year is the two neighborhoods I happened to wander through on the last leg of my bicycle ride, shortly after the thought occurred to me. Actually, the idea occurred to me early in the ride, when I …
Environment America is raising serious and important questions about the elephant in the room – the impact of global warming no one wants to talk about: National trends from recent seasons suggest that a home field advantage for cold weather teams over their warm weather rivals may truly exist. Environment America pointed to the National …
It was Gertrude Stein who introduced Ernest Hemingway to “the violent theater of bullfighting.” Raymond Chandler, before he captured LA’s darker angels, was a failed oil company executive. ((Leland, Hip: The History))
I was puzzled by the range of reactions I heard from those around me yesterday to the death of actor Heath Ledger. So I’m conducting a survey. When you heard the news that Heath Ledger died, was your reaction: Who’s Heath Ledger? Wasn’t he that guy in that movie about those guys? OMG! Other (please …
Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I’m working on a piece for the newspaper about riding a bike. At the risk of giving too much away, I’ll say simply that it’s about going to places and seeing things. Such as these things, seen today: ice: It’s been dry for a couple of weeks, but the concrete flood …