Dave Wells joins in
The latest welcome addition to our elite bald brigade is Dave Wells. He was going to buzz it off after Thanksgiving, inspired by hanging with Dixie but hung back. But once he saw that non-family member Hank Stamper buzzed, he decided to join…
Gmail is kind of creepy
It is starting to wig me out how Gmail searches your email and posts related ads. Especially freaky to me is how the search displays signs of a brain, actually interpreting what it is in the message and synthesizing it to come up with things.What…
Start saving your pennies
It looks like I will be starting a column about living in China as an expat for WSJ.com soon, hopefully even before the New Year. The Journal is a sub-only site, so you freeloaders better start saving your pennies now. It will be a slightly…
Hank Stamper buzzed — picture added
Hank Stamper, lead singer of Stamper Lumber, is the latest to take his hair off (and hat), wishing Dixie Doc the best of luck. He is the first non family member to become one of the bald brigade.....this is expected to spread among friends of…
Deal Me In
My friend Tom came over for dinner tonight and brought his clippers. No translations problem here. anna likes the stubbly feel. Driving Tom home, I stopped for a picture with the guard around the corner. Jacket? I don't need no stinkin' jac…
Somebody call DYFS, stat!
Cousin Danny weighs in. No confirmation yet that Sean Hannity himself wielded the clippers. Waiting to hear back from Drudge.
Portrait of the artist as a Young Man
During Hebrew School on Sundays, some of the parents take a Chinese painting class. I posted my first effort a couple of weeks ago. Here is number two. I really enjoy the process and am pretty pleased with the results. But I am most proud of…
Life goes on
Well, I was going to paste Becky’s story in up here, which was about pollution from China leaving its borders and the growing international problems that is creating. But I can’t get it because wsj.com is suddenly not loading here. That…
Life goes on
Well, I was going to paste Becky’s story in up here, which was about pollution from China leaving its borders and the growing international problems that is creating. But I can’t get it because wsj.com is suddenly not loading here. That…
Damn It’s Cold!
Until the end of last week, it was a pretty mild fall here. People talk a lot about how rough the winters are but I was thinking, “Ah, everyone is said that is someone who has never been through a winter before.” I was wearing my heavy fall…