TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Photo taken in the front yard of our post-wartime (1946) government housing in Arlington, Virginia.  The address was 3422 A South Utah, whic...

I found this on Facebook , but also found confirmation (without a photo) at Northern Virginia magazine.  Since the image was provided by Tr...

When I was two years old I fell ill while my family was visiting relatives in the small town of Ada, MN (west of Leech Lake and Itasca, nea...

Image edited for size, color, brightness, and contrast from a garish photo at the whatisgthisthing subreddit.  The discussion thread is rea...

A link to this video was sent to me this morning by a reader in response to my post yesterday about an online extortion attempt.  I've o...

Here's the text of an email I found today in my spam folder: Call was lost, as usual. Ok. I don't have much time, so let's get s...

This was the Astronomy Photo of the Day , showing a time-lapse image of the sky as seen in the Southern Hemisphere, looking toward the south...

Copied from Facebook.  I hope I or a reader can find reliable documentation online. Just realized it gives new meaning to the old phrase ...

Credit Chris Clarke for finding this old Gary Larsen premonitory cartoon and posting it on Facebook . Addendum :  I can't resist adding ...

Found by reader smittypap, who posted the link in a comment at my previous post about art cars . Another example of people having fun.  No w...

There is informed discussion scattered through the comments at the oddlysatisfying subreddit post.  Huge windows used to be assets re light...

I probably should travel more, because I've never seen an elevator panel like this.  The rationale is explained in a lucid and fairly co...

Interesting.  You learn something every day.

The video is almost two hours long - a thorough documentation of the parade, apparently without any commentary, best approached for casual v...

As reported this week in The Guardian : A US appeals court on Friday declared a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling to be unc...