Expanding the Playlist

June 29, 2012

Note to self: Contact KKOO, the oldies station, and thank them for digging into the archives instead of playing the same tired 300 or so songs that everyone plays.

With a 2-decade time span, and even using only the top 50 songs from each year, there should still be at least 1000 songs to choose from; yet so many stations ignore all but a few tunes from their chosen time frame.

I hope that other stations will follow their example and dig a little deeper.

Or I Could Try Exercising...

June 25, 2012

After serious consideration, and many contenders, I've decided that the invention that would work best for me

Is clothing that actually looks good on people who slouch.

August 11, 2024

I just this minute read about a book called Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America by Beth Linker (an endowed professor at Penn). Pocket summary: She thinks that slouching has gotten a bad rap. Read more in the post “I’m No Slouch at Bucking Posture Trends”, dated August 11, 2024.

 

Don't Mess With The Livestock

June 21, 2012

If I were an official of the mining company mentioned below, I’d tread warily. Given that selenium can cause birth defects in livestock; and given that some ranchers have extreme reactions to the wolves who prey on their herds—

I wouldn’t want to be the one blamed for messing up a rancher’s livelihood.