Music and Cats

You, too, can take stunning photographs of buildings!
Just follow these simple guidelines:
1. Select a building with a western exposure. Unless you are at the north or south pole, this is not difficult to do. If the building you choose - for example, this nice turn of the (last) century house - is attractive or interesting, […]

Computerized spellchecking was designed to improve our lives.
Sadly, one never knows when a spellchecker, like any technology, may be turned to the Dark Side. Many humans are no match for the spellchecker, and can be swayed by its evil suggestions. In today’s Seattle PI review of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the […]

Our cats have a wonderful catsitter, and Paul and I a fine friend, in a slight, red-headed woman named Lynne Madrigal. Whether you call it luck, or serendipity, or the hand of the Almighty, finding Lynne and getting to know her has been one of the truly good things about living in Seattle.
Recently, Lynne and […]

You see them in all the coffee houses in Seattle, folks sitting alone at small tables with their size/ caffeination/ milkfat(or soy)/ flavor of choice coffee drinks… and their laptops. On occasion you’ll find them in pairs, sharing that small table; they have eyes only for the LCD displays nestled cozily back to back. Sometimes […]

WARNING: This post has been deemed too complicated by some weekend viewers. Brains have been scrambled. Thinking caps have been broken. You have been warned.
I’m going to ask a personal question: What percentage of your income do you pay for housing? I’m not asking because I want to know, but because I want you to […]