Mr. Clemens on a hotel housekeeper, a doctor’s fundraiser, and the nation’s two favorite sermons A letter to the editor, from the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the waiting room To the Editor: Sir — I have been asked to consider a small piece of news from the Read More …
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A Note on the Sunshine State’s Latest Miracle
It is a well-established law of human progress in America that whenever a person accumulates more money than he can physically count, they develope a sudden, overwhelming affection for liberty. Nowhere on the globe is liberty worshipped with such pious fervor today as in the sunny peninsula of Florida. In former times, the wealthy were Read More …
RSU – Restricted Stock Units
Quick disclaimer: I’m a monkey who watches the markets, not a financial advisor. This is education, not advice.
Nine Bathrooms Out of Ten
A letter to the editor, from the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the rental listing To the Editor: Sir — I have in my time been shown a great many remarkable machines, and have found that the more remarkable the machine, the more modestly its inventor will describe Read More …
Built Together, Billed Separately
To the Editor: Sir — I see by the papers that a concern called Amazon, whose chief business appears to be the delivery of everything to everybody by Thursday, has announced that it will spend more than one billion dollars over five years upon the towns that have the misfortune to host its data centers. Read More …
The Television Is Watching You Back
I was raised to believe a television was a box you watched. It turns out I had the arrangement backwards. Researchers at UC Davis, University College London, and a university in Madrid sat down and did the plain, unglamorous work of watching what a smart TV sends out over the wire while you watch it. Read More …
Just Plain Food :: Horchata
I’m tired of a food system built around engineered cravings and shelf life instead of actual food. Here is the recipe to yield 1.5 liters of finished horchata. Ingredients & Equipment 1 cup long-grain white rice (uncooked) 1 whole cinnamon stick 1 tsp pure vanilla extract ½ cup sugar (adjust to taste) 2 cups milk Read More …
A Letter to the Editor
From the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the republic To the Editor: Sir — I have been dead a good while now, but a man does not have to be alive to recognize a confidence game. What is being run on the American public at present is as Read More …
The Poorhouse and the Powder Keg
I have lived in enough states to know that a man who tells you the trouble is Left against Right is usually selling something, and the thing he is selling is your attention, so you won’t notice who’s holding your wallet while you argue about the bathroom or sports. Here is what I notice instead. Read More …
Music will be safe for now
This is not going to be a traditional book report. In that sense I will go over the book a little bit, and maybe why you should read it, but instead, and surprisingly, this book reaffirmed my belief that in the long run, human made music will still be around for thousands of years, and Read More …