Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

One of the latest tech fads is augmented reality , or "AR*." This is a technology which allows one to see the surrounding real-lif...

From the Department of What'll They Think of Next comes the latest high-tech idea: smart license plates. I call your attention to thi...

Warning - adult theme ahead. You have been warned. Last March, I wrote a post titled " The Not-So-Living Doll " that discussed ...

Agnes and I ordered a new refrigerator last week. This was no small task, given that one no longer just goes out and buys what we used to...

No, the Wi-Fi-enabled dildos we discussed the other day are not on the list. I think I might have written about this before, but I'...

No, this post does not provide you with laundry hints about what sort of patterns not to wash with your light patterns. Today, we look at a...

Just a quick rant today ... Yesterday morning at work, I booted up my computer and when my login screen appeared, I typed in my personal ...

We all have stories about bizarre behavior exhibited by people using their cell phones in public. I've written here about the clueless ...

From the Department of I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up comes this major news story: the world's first robot wedding took place in Jap...

The economy being what it is, there's not a lot of money in most organizations for discretionary travel. There was a time when I was of...

We all know that the Internet is a wild and wooly place, full of morons who think it's great fun to screw with your data, criminals who...

I love being a grandparent. I have the fun of watching my grandchildren grow up, and the job of passing on to them the lessons I've lea...

Ah, the things you learn from surfing the web ... It was on this date, June 23rd, of 1868 that a gentleman named Christopher Sholes was a...

Do you remember a time - long, long ago - when there were no cell phones? When, in order to use a telephone, you actually lifted a receiver...

Yesterday I read a very interesting blog post from Occasional Reader rashbre , in which he asked the interesting question, "When Did H...

My friend Bob (no, not that Bob, the other Bob) sent me an e-mail the other day with a list of cleverly updated aphorisms for the 21st ce...

We're going to take a day off from our tour of the Constitution because I've been distracted by another intellectual shiny object - ...

You know, Dear Readers (and are probably tired of hearing about it) that I'm a reading purist - although I own an iPad that has three di...

Well, Christmas is over for another year. The packages have been unwrapped, the gifts examined and gushed over, the big dinner eaten, and al...