Is there a pedestrian safety problem in Corning that I'm unaware of? One that somehow evaded me as I purposely jaywalked across Market Street repeatedly this past weekend?

Maybe there WOULD be pedestrian safety problems if there were places to go after 6PM on Saturday. I tried to show Patty & Laurel some of the better spots downtown the other ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, my car ran out of gas. I often say that I push the envelope, and my gas gauge is just one example of that deep-seated issue. I always knew it'd happen some day. This is actually a combination of my being a stubborn weird crazy old man and my gas gauge having some totally nonlinear, possibly sigmoidal, display function. Where ( Read more... )

A few weeks back I stumbled upon a phrase that will be the title of my first memoir: Hilarity & Poultry.

With that, I present to you a list of pairs, categorized by my feelings on them. Very late in the process did I discover Wikipedia's list of pairs. Drum roll please...

Like:Ben & Jerry ( Read more... )

Most of you don't read the Corning Leader, and that's fine, just fine. I keep up-to-date on news from home, mostly because so much ridiculum goes on around there. Some of that gets reported up here, but that's only big stuff or things that fall geographically in between the papers' regions.

This is my favorite recent news story. All that for $48, ( Read more... )

Cleaning up my kitchen, I read the side of my coffeemaker's pot tonight. One warning on it is "DO NOT HOLD OVER PEOPLE ( Read more... )

I've had some weird dreams recently. Two nights ago, it was that I was really late to meet up with Natalie for something, and I can't remember why. And that silberzauber was like left at the airport, stranded, and couldn't meet Eric. This morning's were twofold I was at a RHPS at Hopkins that had gone awry. Peter B was there, and he seemed to have 0 control ( Read more... )