California Bay (left) and True Bay (right) Living here in the San Francisco Bay area, I find that there is a lot of confusion about...

I recently stumbled across a blog post  discussing the idea that a lot of people think that there are 52 states in the Uni...

[Note: I have redone my recipe for finger lime marmalade and posted a new version. This post is still useful as I did not copy all of the...

Introduction For several months I have been watching the YouTube channel, Tasting History with Max Miller . It's great. His mix of hu...

aka, How Andrew Likes to Waste an Incredible Amount of Time. DISCLAIMER: The information provided here is for entertainment purpose...

Five or six years ago my neighbor Bill suffered a very unusual stroke. The stroke destroyed his ability to form new memories. I am t...

Kerosene Aka “Kero” 2002-2015 She was the queen of dogs

In 1947, Churchill said, ‘“democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those others that have been tried.”’ When qu...

Introduction Recently there has been a swirl of news related to the sudden, meteoric rise in the price of GameStop stock (as well as t...

UPDATE: August 2017 After years of service, the composter I built and described below rotted away. Taking my learning from using this...