I was taught that only with a flurry of 4th quarter consumer spending will the invisible hand of the market economy lift the sun back higher in the sky again.

Ugh. I've occasionally bought service manuals online, and although I don't know if they've ever actually helped me fix an appliance, it is fun to learn how to go into service mode.

What’s the washing machine doing? Although in my experience washing machines are one of the least DIY repairable appliances. But appliancepartspros.com has good videos.

In physics, we rely much less on illustrations, but we heavily use quantitative graphs. Reading papers from the ~1950s, I'm struck by the quality and legibility of draftsman-drawn plots, compared to so many of today's computer generated plots.

Dave Eggers points out in Her Right Foot--nominally a childrens' picture book--she's also going somewhere.

Would you prefer an 8am sunrise?

I got a 1200-baud modem for my 13th birthday. Quickly discovered Compu$erve was not in a 13-year-old's budget. Then discovered the BBSs.

I read in "The Secret Life of Groceries" that scammy "get your CDL" training organizations push folks into the "owner-operator" model where you earn subsistence wages at best and from which it is very hard to ever break out of.

Bondi purports to appoint an “emergency police commissioner” and orders specific DC policy on sanctuary laws to be deleted from police guidance.

I’m no expert, but this seems illegal under the Home Rule Act, which says only that the President may direct DC police to “provide services.”

Yes. The proper next step in any budding barbecue obsession is to read as much as you can on amazingribs.

Wow! I remember being there on some beautiful summer afternoon and everyone was enjoying it but wait--it was 5 oclock so the rangers had to drive around shooing everyone out of the place.