Miscellaneous

In more Apple news, a new poll shows that the Apple Watch is struggling to gain popularity, and experts are calling the watch the worst device Apple has ever made. At least until the debut of the upcoming Apple Fax.

China announced it is going to start allowing couples to have more than one child. Which means nine months from now, Apple's work force in China will double. For Halloween, Google Maps has created a Street View tour of the world's scariest locations. The scariest locations

A TDE reader sent me this classic. It brought back some nostalgia and even a hankering for a Stroh's, even though I haven't touched that stuff in thirty years:

BYCU For about a decade, Founders Brewing Company's Breakfast Stout label has depicted a Norman Rockwell-esque drawing of a baby eating a bowl of oatmeal. Unfortunately, the Michigan Liquor Control Commission administrative rules prohibit alcohol containers to “depict or make reference in any manner to minors.” The

Twitterables Courtesy of Seneca: When one is busy and absorbed in one's work, the very absorption affords great delight. Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest. When a man has said: "I have lived!", every morning he arises he receives a bonus. Study cannot be helpful

Twitterables Courtesy of Joseph Epstein If the same progress as had been made in education were made in the culinary arts, we should today still be eating soup with our hands. The physicist Wolfgang Pauli used to respond to the inadequate answers of his less than brilliant students by saying,

Officer flips student out of her desk [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/us/officers-classroom-fight-with-student-is-caught-on-video.html] . I have no opinion about whether the officer acted appropriately, but have you ever tried to get a kid out of a school desk against

A little extreme, it would seem. And what's with the capitalization?

Twitterables Courtesy of Bill Kauffman: Henry James's definition of a cosmopolite: a little bit of everything and not much of anything. Three a.m., the soul's midnight, as Ray Bradbury calls it. Conversation is the casualty in the empire of noise. Ray Bradbury's Dandelion

Miscellaneous Rambling Whatta glorious Indian Summer! I'm really enjoying the extra time outdoors. I've done all sorts of stuff to get the garden ready for next spring, so much so that I'm reminded of Luke 12 and the parable of the fool who stored