Richard’s Ramblings

Who in their right minds wants Microsoft full access to whatever information they choose to send to themselves when you accidentally click on the box that pops up wanting you to report an application error or system crash to Microsoft? Not me! I personally find screaming an obscenity at the offending application much more therapeutic [...]

Quaker Oats, in an ever evolutionary process, now requires for it’s new line of oatmeal that packets be cooked in the microwave, stating that the old process of simply adding hot water will not cook the oatmeal. My assumption is that this is accurate and that they have developed some new way of processing the [...]

Smells have been pushed forth into my consciousness quite a bit lately, whether it be on the way to work, the news, the radio, or home. If you think about it, smells are just chemical reactions that occur when microscopic particles briefly attach to equally microscopic receptors in your nose. Like the virus-fighting cells within [...]

OK, so this is the first of the alphabetic series where the letter of the alphabet does not represent a key word in the title of the work. I knew I’d have a hard time finding great classics with Q, J, X, and other high-value Scrabble tiles, so I began the exception with the Catcher [...]