Stonekettle Station

Anonymous member of the WHITE RACE, who just showed up in the comments section of this post. Feel free to slap this idiot around all you l...

Ran into a guy I sort of know. We talked about things. The conversation eventually turned to Education:   Him: The problem with educ...

As previously noted, we made it back from Florida little worse for wear. The trip was to take care of some family issues that I’d rather n...

I'm home. Tired. Jet lagged. And sick of airplanes. Going to bed.

Folks, I will be mostly off-line for the next week. As such Stonekettle Station may or may not be updated until after next weekend. I ha...

Busy, busy day today.  I’m going to be out of town for the next week and I needed to leave early today, so I worked through lunch and deci...

You know me. I’m nothing if not a social guy. I blog. I text. I IM (on five different networks no less).  I Skype.  I Stumble. You can f...

We eat out a couple times a week. Usually we get breakfast in town at least once on the weekends. And if we go into Anchorage we get lun...

One of the first science fiction books I ever read was Lester Del Rey’s Step to the Stars . Step is the first book of the Jim Stanley tri...

In the shop, making sawdust this morning to the sounds of America’s Sister Golden Hair   This is an endgrain vase from spalted birch. ...

No, no I’m not talking about the healthcare thing. No, I’m not talking about the politicians. …though, come to think of it, I guess the ...

You know what I hate most about Microsoft Windows? The bizarre random inconsistency. Nine times in a row it does the same thing, and the...

Today’s google search phrase: “Jim Wright Leia Slave Bikini Sexist Comment Scalzi Whatever”  from some persistent goon in Australia,...

I expect my Monday to be just like this: Just exactly like this.

Boom, Like That, off the Shangri La album.     Seriously, who but Mark Knopfler would write a song based on Ray Kroc’s autobiograph...

Former Vice President, Dick Cheney, predicts “ Barack Obama’s a one-term president. ”   Other Famous predictions by Dick Cheney: - Def...

Remember TQM? Total Quality Management? It’s a methodology for improving process control in manufacturing. It was cooked up by a p...