click to enlarge It’s always struck me as weirdly cosmic how quickly something that seems benignly innocent can beget a trail of events. About a week ago, I was sitting at the kitchen table (my new office since I can still barely walk after knee-replacement surgery), looking at the birds that visit the numerous feeders … Read more
Whether you went into the pandemic with a dog at home or acquired one or two or seven partway through, pet owners know that the past two years have provided vast quantities of quality time with their four-legged charges. Perhaps you found yourself speaking to your furry friends. Perhaps you started reading to them. Or … Read more
As summer arrives, the fact that hot dogs come in packs of ten but hot-dog buns only come in packs of eight once again existentially unbalances the barbecue season. The mathematically optimal solution of buying four hot-dog packs (of ten hot dogs each) and five hot-dog-bun packs (of eight hot-dog buns each), to total forty … Read more
