Sparky The Wonder Dog

With tremendous sadness I report that Janet and I learned yesterday that our 15-1/2 year old short-hair, black & tan, miniature dachshund, Sparky, has cancer.  A "mass," as the vet diplomatically put it, about the size of a lemon on the X-ray, at...

“Movable Type” Rules

An interlude, and a paean to Movable Type, on which this blog is supported.  Last night, with no small amount of trepidation, I upgraded the Movable Type platform I’m running from 3.0 to 3.12—sounds like a small thing, right?  That would be, in...

Keeping It Simple (Stupid!)

I haven’t incorporated supply/demand curves into the blog before simply because they didn’t seem highly germane to any particular past posting. But this time they did. I realize I perhaps should have done so with a caveat, so belatedly here it is: My goal...