I noticed that the price of gas had dropped by a few pennies, and I found myself wondering how that had happened…
Category: Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Better Way to Multiply
An assistant math professor in Sydney, Australia has developed a new method for multiplying giant numbers…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Climate Change Comes to Pagosa
If I wanted constant rain, I could live in Seattle. But then I would probably have to work for Microsoft, so forget it…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Pioneers of Colorado
The license plate shown does not belong to me. It was for sale on a website for $4.99. I seriously considered buying it, until I read the disclaimer…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Yes, We Have No Bananas
To paraphrase a famous book, “A man does not live by pizza and beer alone, but also by overripe bananas…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Telescopes in Outer Space
When I was a kid, growing up in the 1970s, I fully expected men to be visiting Mars by the time I graduated from college…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Shame is the Name of the Game
Shame has become big business, nowadays. Really big business…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Things Aren’t As Bad As You Think
On the Gapminder’s website, you can pick any year you want, and see how the “Life Expectancy” changes with improvements in family income…
READY, FIRE, AIM: To Burn-out, or Not to Burn-out; That is the Question
According to WHO, ‘burn-out’ is an ‘occupational phenomenon’. A ‘factor influencing health status or contact with health services’…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Birds and the Bees
Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let’s do it, let’s fall in love… — Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in READ MORE
READY, FIRE, AIM: When Soup Goes to War
I hear things are not going so well for the Ukrainian army…
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Few Words from a Candidate Who Wears Plaid Shirts
He’s been quoted as saying he wants to “save our Democracy from a radical conspiracy nut” and that “Boebert is weak and going to lose…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Monopoly Money
Back in 2013, a financial analyst named Glen Tickle figured out the exchange rate of U.S. dollars to Monopoly money…
READY, FIRE, AIM: When Women Rule the World
We might put the history of female voting into some perspective…
READY, FIRE, AIM: I’m Going into Stage I Restrictions
So we can’t use water, and we can’t use fire. What’s next on the menu? Can’t breathe the air?
READY, FIRE, AIM: What Doesn’t Kill Me Only Makes Me Stranger
That is not a typo in this article headline…
READY, FIRE, AIM: When Robots Feel Sad
“If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Water, Water, and Water
Now that I think of it, I have never seen a photo of Ms. Boebert holding a glass of water…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Four Day Work Week Test
More than 3,000 workers, in about 70 British companies, are participating in an experiment to find out if a four day work week will increase productivity…