Neil Patrick Harris; there is something weird or missing in Mr. Harris. I never gave him much thought until a fan of his gave me his autobiography, Chose Your Own Autobiography, and that read made chills run up my spine.  You know how you start talking with someone and they seem intelligent and interesting and then, as the conversation goes on, you ( Read more... )

Just said goodbye to a colleague who got a fabulous job with the EU government, executive branch ( Read more... )

Grandpa Sidney was a little crippled by a stroke which he had suffered shortly before my parents' marriage, so I only really remember seeing him seated, with a cane nearby. I picture him thusly, bald, ancient, seated, in a room in a clapboard house he built for grandmother. So, I have no memory of him standing next to anyone ( Read more... )

The Cafe Scientifique this month was worth the time and the lousy food service ( Read more... )

If you believe Google, the CDC reports flu trends 1 - 2 weeks behind the actual events. If you chart Google searches for flu and flu-related topics, they act as a predictor of what the CDC will report in 1 -2 weeks, i.e., Google has more real-time data on influenza pandemics ( Read more... )