Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has gotten very rich from his brand of observational humor.

Observational humor is when someone finds humor in the mundane things that they observe around them.

Stereotypical Seinfeld jokes often start with the phrases, [more...]

If you live with another person, your bathroom’s roll of toilet paper is like one of those ancient African or Chinese strategy games, in which two players alternately take turns removing between one and three tiles (or sticks or rocks or whatevers) from a pile of them, and the winner is the one who leaves the very last one for their opponent to take. [more...]

In the past, I’ve given you glimpses of my desk and my home office work area. It still looks very similar to those photos, except that I have only two computers instead of three, and I replaced the Brother laser printer that you see on the back-right corner of my desk with my HP LaserJet 4000 N, which sits on a shelf to the left of my desk.

As you can tell, [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that my wife and I used to live up north in the Frostbite State.

And we’ve been very happily living in the Sunshine State since Christmas Day, 2003.

Over the years, we’ve lived in many different towns and [more...]

If you’re like me, you like to understand how things work.

And when one of your things needs fixing, you like to try to do it yourself.

And maybe even improve its functionality or reliability. [more...]

As the end of another year draws nigh (Ha! I never thought I’d ever use that expression!) it’s time for Web sites all over the world to compile even more lists of information than they normally do.

Today, I found several good ones to share with you, so I decided to post them all in one Journal entry. [more...]

I’ve mentioned it several times in the past, so long-time readers of this Journal know that many years ago, I did my Masters thesis on creativity, and my favorite definition of creativity is “Looking at one thing and seeing another.”

So of course I’m very impressed that someone can look at [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I have so little drawing ability that even my stick men are barely believable.

So, of course, I’m always impressed by, and eager to showcase, anyone who has what I consider to [more...]

I live in a place that’s very sandy.

Some of the world’s most popular sand beaches are just minutes away.

And underneath everyone’s lawn? [more...]

This coming Christmas day will be the 6th anniversary of my wife and me arriving in the Sunshine State from the Frostbite State. One year in the Frostbite State, we got 27 1/2 inches of snow on Halloween, and it stayed piled up in the corners of the shopping centers’ parking lots until the following April or May. [more...]