Deer Mule Buck 1600b

the return of the little red motor scooter (and five dollar buck lunches, too)

YES­TERDAY I was on my way down Avon­dale Road, heading to Home Depot to pick up a couple of pieces of dow­eling and a pair of brac­ings to make clothe-racks in the closets of our new house. As I pulled up to the red light at the Union Hill Road in­ter­sec­tion, who should pull up be­hind me? [Read more] “the return of the little red motor scooter (and five dollar buck lunches, too)”

Deer Mule Buck 1600

motor scooters and the return of the five dollar buck lunch

FIVE DAYS A WEEK at ap­prox­i­mately 6:30 AM, I drive Berni two miles down the road to a shop­ping center where the rel­a­tively re­li­able vi­t­amin shop where she works as a “con­sul­tant” is lo­cated. Since it is a shop­ping center, the ubiq­ui­tous Star­bucks has a stand-alone building with a drive-through window is right up front along the road. [Read more] “motor scooters and the return of the five dollar buck lunch”

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with modern technology, everything will work out just fine—ultimately

HOW DOES ONE AD­DRESS TECH­NOLOGY and the fact that au­toma­tion keeps elim­i­nating the need for human be­ings in var­ious jobs? Nicholas Carr does just that in an ar­ticle ti­tled “The myth of the end­less ladder” for the Rough Type web­site (April 6, 2014). He notes that Aris­totle com­pared tools to slaves in that both pro­vide their mas­ters with time for more re­fined activities.  [Read more] “with modern technology, everything will work out just fine—ultimately”

LeafBlower 3 1600

the green thing, the good old days, and leaf bloody blowers!

WHEN I WAS A KID growing up in North­eastern Penn­syl­vania, we reused paper bags from gro­cery stores as school­book jackets. My brother Charles and Donnie and me would spend Sat­urday morn­ings scouring the neigh­bor­hoods looking for dis­carded soda bot­tles, which we turned in for cash at Max’s gro­cery store. [Read more] “the green thing, the good old days, and leaf bloody blowers!”

ChandlerGene DukeOfEarlWay

earl earl earl, earl of grey (yes, I’m the earl of grey)

SINCE LAST WRITING ABOUT TEA in gen­eral and Tazo’s Earl of Grey in par­tic­ular, I have tried to other earls: both the Twin­ings and Stash’s Earl Grey Black & Green (the blend is in­ter­esting but I prefer each sep­a­rately). I can re­port with com­fort that, for my taste, while both are good nei­ther holds a candle to the Tazo. [Read more] “earl earl earl, earl of grey (yes, I’m the earl of grey)”