July 5, 2002

Puns

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I would like to propose a class of puns. I don’t know if this is a recognized class or, if it is, whether it has a name. (Reader comments ar...
June 18, 2002

Quotation

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You never know what you will be remembered for. Of all the words spoken and written by Richard Nixon, for example, the former President is p...
June 17, 2002

Unpatriotic?

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Much has been said of the plan of The Stanley Works’ plan to reincorporate in Bermuda. The plan reputedly will save the company $20,000,000 ...
June 13, 2002

ADM as God?

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A recent NPR underwriting announcement referred to “ADM: Maker of natural vitamin E.” Can ADM make something that is natural? Does not ADM p...
June 11, 2002

Homeland Security

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President Bush has finally decided to ask for a Department of Homeland Security. In his speech to Congress back in September, I thought he w...
May 21, 2002

Did I Miss the Coup?

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Are other people tired of hearing administration spokesmen suggesting that anyone who expresses a view different from that of George W. Bush...
May 18, 2002

Back Again!

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My Web hosting service informed me a few weeks ago that Lionel Deimel’s Farrago was to be moved to a different server. I received detailed ...
April 18, 2002

Things Might Have Been Different

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I recently saw a pharmaceutical industry ad on TV that showed a young woman explaining how she had benefited from new drugs taken for her br...
April 2, 2002

Gloomy Words

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I was invited to attend a Tenebrae service on Good Friday. This is a service associated with Holy Week, at which candles are used and are, o...
March 31, 2002

How’s That Again?

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According to an NPR obituary, retired CNN executive Ed Turner (no relation to Ted Turner) "tried to launch two unsuccessful cable news ...
March 19, 2002

World Premier

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My hymn “ O Lord the Invisible ” received its first public performance (as the sequence hymn ) at my church Sunday morning. After living wit...
March 16, 2002

Ins and Outs of Completing Forms

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A few days ago, I was formatting a form for presenters to provide information about their presentations at a workshop. It occurred to me tha...
March 4, 2002

On- and Off-line

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Some trips to the library are more helpful than are others. I wrote on 2/19/2002 about AOL’s use of “Online,” pronounced “on´-line” in its t...
March 1, 2002

Steel

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President Bush soon has to decide whether the U.S. will impose punitive tariffs on imported steel. The president of the United Steelworkers ...
February 22, 2002

Sarah Hughes

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Figure skater Sarah Hughes was at the center of an Olympic drama last night that people will be recounting for decades. Though she finished ...
February 19, 2002

On-line

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American Online has been heavily promoting its version 7.0 software on television lately. AOL hype is generally irritating, of course, but I...
February 14, 2002

Wire

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A few blocks from my house, the old Overbrook trolley line, which has been out of service for seven years, joins the Beechview light rail li...
February 10, 2002

Tech Support

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I never heard back from the tech support folks I thought might be able to help me with my PC problem. (Actually, I didn’t really think they ...

Windows Update

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In a paroxysm of administrative fervor yesterday, I increased the available space on one of my hard drives by creating Zip archives to repla...
February 9, 2002

Historicity

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Without being obsessive about it, I watched much of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics from Salt Lake City last night. Although I...