CDOT, the Colorado Department of Transportation, was the victim of a cyberattack that cost millions of dollars last year. They refused to pay the ransom requested, and instead had their technical p...

I thought “Fox on the Run” was by Cheap Trick, and just happened to sound a lot like ELO. But it’s actually by a band I’ve never heard of called Sweet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxon_the_Run(...

This article came out over two years ago, and was very popular, but I didn’t actually read it until this week. It’s amazing and informative and I recommend it, especially if – like me – you are cur...

I asked the server at the new neighborhood Vietnamese restaurant which she recommends - the pho or the lemongrass rice noodle bowl. She thought for a moment and said that since it’s not hot outside...

I’m a little excited about the trailer for this film, “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”. But wait a minute, isn’t Godzilla a “she”? Shouldn’t it be “Godzilla: Queen of the Monsters”? Well, Wikipedi...

(originally posted 5/14/2019, updated 6/20/2019, updated again 12/29/2019) I normally don’t make New Years resolutions. I figure if a change is worth making, why not start right now, instead of wa...

I decided to add a new category to my blog, and that is “Recipe”. So I went back and labeled all the recipes I’ve posted here over the past decades. That means I can now list them all in once place...

My birthday is March 20, which most years is the first day of spring. This year the vernal equinox is at 3:58 PM Mountain Daylight Time. I plan to take the day off work and do some of my favorite t...

(continued from Green River, Part 2) Sunday Sunday morning we got up, enjoyed an even bigger free breakfast at the Tamarisk Restaurant, checked out, and headed east to a place called Sego Canyon....

(trust me, you really need to read Green River, Part 1 first) Friday We left Denver on Friday morning. Unfortunately, a million other people also wanted out of town for the long (Presidents’ Day)...