Impossible Kisses

Several years ago, while at Washington University in St Louis, I headed to the Biology department library to return some books. As many li...

If I say I love you I want you to know It’s not just because there’s moonlight although Moonlight becomes you so “Moonlight Becomes...

Moonlight and love songs Are never out of date When birds are gone and cars are flocking overhead I’m sure fancy software will ...

It’s easy for old people like me to talk about how Twitter and Facebook have turned the internet into the cyber equivalent of Wal-Mart—an u...

Why should I care If I have to cut my hair I’ve got to move with the fashions Or be outcast Today’s post is kind of trivial, bu...

“Caroline Wozniacki's desperate attempt to reinvent herself took a bizarre twist yesterday with the world No. 1 being forced to recal...

“I’ve always wished I was a professional dancer,” Linda said. I said, “Don’t dancers have to be really skinny?” Linda made a face—wome...

A pilothouse sailboat, a midsize boat, is large enough for its own laundry room. Companies make washer-dryer units that fit inside a...

Some of the stores around here have started selling flower seeds . It’s kind of early, but I may pick up some zinnia seeds. I don’t have...

“If such things exist, if they are possible, then everything is. Magic. And God.” I Wish ‘Gwen Conliffe’ Could Exist What can ...

Okay, first of all, the 2011 tennis season has started in Australia. There’s so much weird stuff going on in the world now—Goblin Univers...

On Fridays I like to have something special, but today I’ve got nothing. Yesterday I sort of summed up the bird and car stuff I’ve been ...

A Massachusetts company hopes to start delivering its flying car to customers by late 2011. Terrafugia Inc., founded about five years ago ...

Today’s post is just a personal note. I’ve made a change to my profile page, adding a movie to my favorite movie list. I’m not sure how I l...

We come on a ship they call the Mayflower We come on a ship that sailed the Moon We come in the age’s most uncertain hour And we sing a...

A telephoto lens and excessive cropping can make small things far away appear to be near and the flat space makes gaps between things ...

A few days ago I talked about supervillains and I mentioned that my two favorite supervillains were from Smallville , Lex Luthor and Lana L...

What do you think about a possible link between all the bird deaths in Beebe and the drum die-off in Oxford? My perspective is that I ...

Oops. I’d intended to have something special written for today, but—for reasons that I might get into in another post—I never wrote anythin...

The story of how the computer on my desk got to me is one of the most peculiar tales of the twentieth century, and it demonstrates many tr...