Seen on the road to adventure

A lot of the concrete pourers left their shingles on their handiwork back in the day. R.E. Mills is the only one I can recall finding in the city who left his phone number, too.

A promise that would be funny to keep

Shot by my father, in the Land of Ports.

Needful things

As usual, Japan is way ahead of the rest of us. It is embarrassing to me to hear people say we're the No. 1 leader in all things, because we so obviously are not.

To wit:


I'm trying to figure out what the coolest use would be for one of these ultra-thin, ultra-flexible displays. I mean, there's a whole basketful of obvious choices: A TV you can easily hang on the wall would be nice, but it would have to be pretty big, I think. If the wizards who come up with these things can ever overcome the physical obstacles to making high-fidelity, ultra-thin speakers, we'll be in business...