• Catching up on my photos

    Catching up on my photos

    Over the years I’ve collected a number of photos. I’m digitizing them. In any case, I was going through them, uploading pictures from our recent trip to Europe. I came across some that I had taken…

  • How to iron woolen dress pants

    Equipment: Process: Rationale: There are more detailed and complex guides [1] [2], but the above is simple, fast and effective. Shin is a problem with wool pants. To remove the shin, the Woman’s Institute of Domestic…

  • Humour

    A friend sent me the following observations from George Carlin: Cows:Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that the USA government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago,…

  • Birthday of the San Francisco Cable Car

    Birthday of the San Francisco Cable Car

    On this date in 1873, Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had promoted for the city of San Francisco. The first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent…

  • A Day in the Life: Salt Pills

    When I was between 19 and 25 my friends and I would take long bicycle trips, often several hundred kilometers. Frequently we would travel over 130 km per day. Usually the first days were the hardest.…