Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 1 of 112)

Camper pad project

When a project might be a good idea, it’s better for me to do it, then to worry about regretting it later.  This project might be like that.

Vehicles will rust if they are parked on dirt as moisture comes up.  The camper needs to be parked on the new asphalt, but the new asphalt needs to stay nice.

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We live in the future, just not the science fiction future.

WSJ:  I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.

WSJ:  I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.

The 5-foot-6-inch robot shuffled to the dishwasher, pulled the door handle and slid a fork—tines up, naturally—into the silverware holder. Then it grabbed a towel to wipe the counter. Later, it folded my sweater and fetched a bottle of water from the fridge.

Don’t try living in a science fiction future, it’s a sham. 

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Workout routine

There is just no way to make this look good.  Unless I get a tape worm from Sparky or deer wasting disease, I will remain a fat guy.1

It helps to say that I am famine resistant, but the photos don’t lie.  I could phony them up like the fat-arsed social media girls, but that defeats the purpose of having a record of our workout progress.

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Margaret Atwood doesn’t think that girls are nicer.

WSJ:  Margaret Atwood on the Lessons She Learned as a Young Girl

WSJ:  Margaret Atwood on the Lessons She Learned as a Young Girl

Anyone who thinks that females are perfect, that girls are nicer, that every sadistic thing girls and women do is the fault of “the patriarchy,” has either forgotten a lot or never been a 9-year-old girl at school.

My cosmopolitan niece, dressed in lilac in the photo, was once chastised by Margaret Atwood for not being nice enough.

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