More of those wonderful events that I call Duhs. These could have given the advertisement folks at V-8 Juices their motto: I coulda had a V-8! — Like, I coulda turned off the phone’s volume! The Phone’s Volume Button After having telephones all of my life, I, Duh, realized recently that besides turning off the ringers to the telephones, I … Read More
Johnny Weissmuller and Tarzan Ride Again
This week I am in copy heaven with three wonderful video-editing programs, and my favorite 3-D and 2-D movies. (1) Thanks to my 3-D virtual reality (VR) headset, Blu-ray 3-D DVDs, and a new wonderful video-editing program, I can now view my favorite 3-D movies on my iPhone embedded in my $15 VR headset. The video-editing program is PavtubeBDMagic for … Read More
Life in 3-D, Up Close and Comfy
Robert Ebsen
For the past few nights I have been lying in bed, looking up, and watching a 3-D movie. I am in heaven. Before I continue, a little history. When I was a kid in the 1950s, I loved the 3-D movies and 3-D comics. As an adult in the 1980s, they brought back better 3-D movies, which continued to improve, … Read More
I Died and Went to Tooth Heaven
Robert Ebsen
It has been a year since I last wrote about the extremely interesting things (the Duh things) happening in my life. Why so long? It’s not that I haven’t thought of Duhs. I think of them all the time. It is because I haven’t written them down. I would think I was going to remember them, and I forget them. … Read More
Tree-Searching Made Easier
I have been so turned-on these last few weeks by my recent PDF scanning and searching of 197 Wikipedia Coats of Arms articles, and of my word and fact books, that I knew my tree ID hobby would be next. A few years ago, I learned to identify over 200 trees. Funny what happens to our memories. I’d say that … Read More
I Swear I Am Ghana Do This Right
Robert Ebsen
It is relatively simple to create and search PDF files on my Mac. Last night, though, I was up figuring out how to do the same on my iPhone. Soon, when I am sitting out in the sunshine, I will be able to search, for example, all 195 countries’ Wikipedia articles about Coats of Arms for the word sword. I … Read More
Preserving Present and Past for the Future
Robert Ebsen
My computer room is beginning to look abandoned. What to do with hundreds of empty file folders, and several empty bookshelves? I haven’t decided yet. That is what happens when you have scanned in 31 thousand pages of documents and books. And yesterday, while going through cabinets in the garage, I discovered another 27 books I would like to scan. … Read More
This Will Make You Eat Your Heart Out
Robert Ebsen
I am ashamed of myself and at the same time proud of myself. I did something I have done in the past. Then I did something else that I have done before. Once I picked up and perused Trader Joe’s October Fearless Flyer the other day, I was hooked. I quickly told Siri to take a reminder: “Go to Trader … Read More
Building a Better Little House
A typical sukkah, where Jews eat (and some sleep) during the week-long holiday that starts Oct. 16. four days after Yom Kippur. Photo: beliefnet.com
My passion this week is building a better little house in the backyard. Each year around this time, for the past 40 years, I have built a variety of temporary little houses in the backyard. The houses, or sukkahs, were built to commemorate the 40-year wanderings of the Israelites in the desert. It is with some excitement that in this, … Read More
Not Just Another Birthday
They are playing “76 Trombones.” Photo: Zoran Zonde Stojanovski / unsplash.com
Yesterday was my 76th birthday. 76 Trombones! I had expected it would be just like any birthday. Yes, there were the delightful calls from the kids, and from some friends. There was the special treatment from my loving wife. But there was something else. Something I had not expected. For the first time, I began to feel my age. Shocking. … Read More