Tim Cook is the man...

Check out this article by Tim Cook in today's WaPo -- speaking for Apple and many others, including me.

Spring has sprung...

Sorry I haven't posted for a while.  We were up at the Tahoe/Donner place over the weekend.  In the past mid-March always provided snow in our front yard.  But for the last two years there has been very little snow.  So here is what the front yard looked like last weekend.

Yep those are daffodils blooming about a month or so too soon.  But then of course there is no such thing as climate change or global warming.

Toles nails it again...

Is Obama Care a disaster?  With tongue firmly in cheek, Toles thinks so...

Beautiful words

Ran across something that I just had to share: beautiful words.  I like 'em all but I think "vellichor" is the coolest: "(n) the strange wistfulness of used bookshops."  Lest you think it's something made up or totally phony check this corroborating source.

Conservatives unmasked...

Been out of town the last few days.  Now that I'm back I wanted to give you something to chew on.  Start chewing right here.  Alternet is becoming one of my favorite political sites.

Frank keeps getting better

A couple of days ago I was emptying the dishwasher when kabam!!!, I started hearing Sinatra singing "The Summer Wind." Talk about a powerful ear worm.  Of course I immediately went to this blog and entered it as my current ear worm on my home page.  But all day yesterday and into this morning I kept hearing it, right down to the groovy Nelson Riddle arrangement.  Nothing else to do at that point than actually listen to the real thing, which I did right here.  Yep, it was just as great as always -- Frank at a time (for my money) that his chops were probably the best they ever were.  "Chops" encompasses the whole package including tone, timbre, confidence, and especially phrasing.  He just kills "The Summer Wind" in less than three minutes. Dang, as I get older Frank just keeps getting better and better.

Some stunning magic!

I am a big fan of magic and the magicians who ply the trade.  I am always intrigued with magic that incorporates modern technology, yet is performed in an intimate setting where the tricks are real practical magic as opposed to clever "CG" presentations.  Accordingly, I was totally blown away, yet charmed by this wonderful bit of magic.  Realize that this dude is doing all this with Ellen sitting right next to him, a proximate audience (love the selfie bit), and close, unforgiving camera work. I have no idea how he is pulling this stuff off.  Too cool.