ScottJ

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Something very real and personal is troubling me, and I need to write about it to clear my mind and try to find direction. Thus it seems I have returned […]

Signs of Human Error

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A few years ago, I lived in the small town of Douglasville, Georgia. Shortly after moving there, I began to discover that there was a reason that the town was […]

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From today’s news (emphasis in the last paragraph is mine): BEIJING, Dec. 6 (AP) – (Kyodo)—China successfully launched a hybrid rocket Friday for the first time, Xinhua News Agency reported.The […]

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Hello all.  I’m on the road again this week at March ARB near Riverside, California.  It’s been quite hectic, and in reality the very last thing I’ve got time to […]

The November Witch

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Each year on November 10 in Silver Lake, Minnesota, a long-retired lighthouse is brought back to life and sends forth a piercing beam of light, and in Detroit at the […]

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It doesn’t, of course. I’m betting the title got your attention, though, just as a similar headline did when it appeared today on news aggregator fark.com. The story itself, posted […]

Slumming

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A much more interesting blog than this one is under construction. It’s long, based on an idea from MMM, and it’s taking a lot of time to write. I promise […]

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The Sydney Sun-Herald newspaper has published a list of what it considers the “Top 100 Books of All Time.” There is no indication of how this list was arrived at, […]

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I have been thinking a lot lately about the stuff of life.  No, not single-malt Scotch, but DNA. I just finished re-reading a very interesting Robin Cook novel called “Mutation,” […]

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This blog has taken what I have come to consider an unwise turn in the last few months.  Outrage at several idiots and the people who provide support for those […]