Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 1 of 114)

Technology won’t save us from old folks.

November 15, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

WSJ: Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age

Machines could soon help elders get out of bed, bathe them, even provide them with emotional support.

I always figured this problem would be solved by the Japanese inventing competent Elder-bots, the Chinese making cheap knock-offs and an American start-up company offering free robots that tended to the feeble as it harvested confidential medical information to defraud Medicaid. That won’t happen.

Air springs on the new truck.

November 15, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

A new truck means new projects.

That yellow jounce block was removed from above the rear axle, and replaced with an air spring.

Sparky’s trophy pear.

November 14, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The weather was mild, so we went for a long walk. Sparky found the worst looking pear ever, and brought it up to the house as a souvenir. I tossed it out.

What’s the code?

November 13, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

WSJ: Why Every Family Needs a Code Word

If you receive a call from someone who sounds just like your grandson and says he needs money or a gift card, the best thing to do is hang up and call your grandson. But if the voice is so convincing that you can’t bear to do that, ask for your family code word.

This happened to my mother. She got a call from somebody who identified himself as her grandson, and needed money to get out of jail. The same thing has happened to the elderly parents of several of my friends.

Enough with the fluoride debate.

November 13, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Efforts to remove fluoride from drinking water make steady progress amid mainstream headwinds

A growing movement to remove fluoride from public drinking water is gaining steam, fueled by modern research and safety concerns.

Everybody has teeth and billions of dollars goes to medical research. It shouldn’t be difficult to get an answer on fluoride and clearly explain the results.

Being alone isn’t so bad.

November 12, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

RCI: Americans Are Increasingly Alone, But Are They Really Lonely?

In 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a bombshell report, “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” that painted a bleak picture of citizens feeling “isolated, invisible, and insignificant.” Most provocatively, it stated that perhaps half of Americans face a personal crisis of aloneness that poses health risks “similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day.”

The “Crisis of Loneliness” issue has been in the news for over a decade. It has always sounded phony to me. How does anyone gauge the loneliness of others?

The Celebrity Traitors is a mediocre reality show, so a 7/10 isn’t so bad.

November 12, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

It’s embarrassing to be watching a reality show. I watched the first season of Road Rules. That was the last, and maybe only, reality show that I followed for a whole season. That was thirty years ago.

I’ve got a big project to do today, but I’m watching Celebrity Traitors.

Feet people should be able to get along.

November 12, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Fetishists infiltrate group promoting barefoot living

The largest group dedicated to “barefoot living” in the UK has been forced to bring in strict rules after being infiltrated by people with a sexual “foot fetish”.

The largest group? That means there are several groups in the UK for people who don’t wear shoes. I hope at least one group has a hobbit theme.

What a difference a day makes.

November 10, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Yesterday, it was 40^o and a little misty. The wind was heading to the east, so it was a good time to blow the leaves into the woods. Glad I did.

The BBC interfered with our presidential election.

November 9, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

BBC: BBC director general and News CEO resign over Trump documentary edit

The BBC’s director general Tim Davie and head of News Deborah Turness have resigned following criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump.

The Telegraph published details of a leaked internal BBC memo on Monday that suggested the Panorama programme edited two parts of the US president’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.

This dishonest BBC documentary aired in October, just prior to the 2024 election. A foreign country tried to influence who was elected as our president.

Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 1 of 114)

Technology won’t save us from old folks.

Air springs on the new truck.

Sparky’s trophy pear.

What’s the code?

Enough with the fluoride debate.

Being alone isn’t so bad.

The Celebrity Traitors is a mediocre reality show, so a 7/10 isn’t so bad.

Feet people should be able to get along.

What a difference a day makes.

The BBC interfered with our presidential election.

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