Monthly Archive: April 2022

Elon Musk offered more than $40 billion for vapor and then tried to bail on the deal when he found out there were a lot of fake accounts in his new acquisition and it...

I’m not an interesting person; in fact, I’m a bit of a bore. Voltaire argued that “[t]he secret of being a bore is to tell everything,” but for me the tell is to say...

Though generally of a favorable frame of mind, like me, Tony was bothered by disinformation, misinformation, and pisinformation. Here’s some nuisances he shared with me now and then. The Truth Can Be Annoying Good...

Watching television with the sound off, I am frequently depressed by the number of advertisements there are for prescription and non-prescription products and disheartened seeing the side-effects “warnings” that often get more air-time than...

When a colleague asked me if I could analyze some data as part of a research project, I responded, “Of course I can, it’s just numbers.” My dad was the Assistant Manager of the...

In 1977, I moved from State College, Pennsylvania to Gainesville, Florida with my family for a tenure-track position at the University of Florida. We survived the trip in a blue ’68 Chevy station wagon...

In 1992, Ann Patchett launched a remarkable career with the publication of her debut novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. I am not much of a reader and have not read this work by...

Mrs. Tice commented on my first-grade report card: “Gets along well with others but seldom plays with them because he always has to have things “his way; is very good with numbers but has...

When I watch the first few minutes of a “draft” show with the sound off, I think about how repugnant and objectionable professional sports can be. Millionaires, soon-to-be-millionaires, and wannabee millionaires at all levels...