TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

In this "immortal quatrain," Dorothy Parker explained that her limit was two: “I like to have a martini, Two at the very mo...

Photo cropped for size and emphasis from the original posted in The Guardian .

"A woman peddles bouquets of flowers outside the ruins of the passport office in Aleppo. " Photographs from Syria, January 2025, b...

Over the past 15 years I have blogged items about the flying corset , the eternal "man-child"  concept, and about Captain Hook...

Assume the goose (as pictured) is on the bed.  Via Australia Reader's Digest .  Answer below the fold...

Everyone who has a phone understands about the need for upgrading the system periodically, but I was surprised by the urgency implied in thi...

My understanding would be that a "quantum leap" would refer to the distance between one electron orbit to another within an atom [...

Image cropped for size from the original, posted in the antiques subreddit.  I'll place the answer "below the fold" so you ca...

A letter to the editor in the August 2025 issue of American Philatelist magazine commented on a previous article about how the changeover f...

Herewith, selections from a "comprehensive guide to the terms gen Z is using to talk about romance, sex and the pursuit of both." ...

I'll defer any personal commentary.  The source article at The Guardian makes note of China's expected public response to Trump...

The week between Christmas and New Years may be a festive period, but the garbage bin still needs to be wheeled out to the roadside.  We...

This is one of the three best books I read in 2025 (the others being Orbital and Playground ).  As the title indicates, this book elucidate...

I previously posted an aerial image of this Italian mountaintop community about five years ago, but this evening image enhanced by city lig...