Being good with technology is like being the guy who owns a pickup truck; everybody wants to be your best friend when thereâs heavy lifting to be done. Face it, the question “Can you help me move?” is substantially the same as “Can you get my internet working?” The only real difference is that [...]

 
As far as my cars are concerned, my primary function is to take them in for maintenance as often as possible. My mechanic shares their viewpoint, except he also sees me as the guy who pays for that maintenance. If I could figure out some way to extract myself from the middle of this arrangement, [...]

 
Maybe it’s a bad case of nostalgia; or maybe it’s the fact that my kids are getting older; or maybe it’s because I canât afford the gas to drive to the edge of town. Whatever the reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about road trips lately.
A road trip is an express ticket out of your [...]

 
In case you missed it, the world didn’t end when they turned on the Large Hadron Collider on September 10, 2008. It would be understandable if you missed this. The so-called major news outlets barely gave it a mention. They also routinely fail to report that the sun has risen or that no asteroids have [...]