David F ⁽²⁰³¹⁾

We toured the USS Torsk today. It's a submarine that was active in the Navy from 1944 to 1968 plus three more years as a trainer for the Naval Reserve. We were with our son Jason who was active duty in the Navy for six…

Rochester's food scene is OK but it's pretty weak in the seafood department. So I am always glad of a trip to Baltimore. We're here this week for my daughter's fiancée getting her Nurse's Pin. Yay, Kat! But of course I have simply got to check out…

My daughter Nechama is quite the geek. Sitting with her and a few of her friends, they good-naturedly started quizzing me the way they get quizzed by guys accusing them of being "fake geeks". First I had to point out that I was only into…

Stumbled across this footnote(!) to a Jason Kottke post about a famous copy editor: It's like he was looking directly at me while I was writing, and said, "oh, so that's what you're going for. Yeah, me too." In a footnote. Bloody hell. I have work to…

Then Ryan calls Trump a racist. OK, he has a point. But then Trump pulls out that blistering riposte... the one that starts, "I'm rubber, you're glue...." The problem I have is that this is raising the bar for what is unacceptably bonkers in our…