I love to watch brightly colored tropical fish swimming in an aquarium. It may no longer be politically correct, but who cares? If you have a high-speed connection and time to kill, take 15 – 20 minutes and add some peace to your day. Watch dozens of brightly-colored fish swimming in a super-realistic digital aquarium — it all… Read More »
I know some of our regular readers raise their eyebrows in amazement as I sometime butcher the English language; I vow to get better. With that being said, I’ve discovered a site that will make you laugh as you learn grammar, spelling, and other things you should know — but apparently think I don’t. The purpose of this… Read More »
In this age of mass espionage, when as private citizens our emails, computers, credit cards, and other personal details are being snapped up by nosy government bureaucrats, faster than a whale sifting plankton; governments who use the word “terrorism” to terrorize us all into allowing unrelenting and unjustified snooping, collating and archiving our every email, message, photo,… Read More »
We’ve been around long enough to know that a majority you love graphics and fonts. The trouble with great fonts is they’re getting harder and harder to find; they are either ugly-looking fonts, or they’re bundled with malware. Who wants to scroll through 1000 crappy fonts to find a few good ones? Not me. We’ve found a site… Read More »
Let’s say you’re feeling particularly ornery and you want to lash out. You could write a vitriolic diatribe and post it on your social media account. But what if you don’t like the word vitriolic — say it annoys you because it sounds like I’m a sesquipedalian. If you visit Word Hippo you can type in vitriolic and… Read More »
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast… “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost This article has zero to do with Robert Frost, but it might. It has nothing to do with poetry, but it might. It… Read More »