Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

We have a new printer. It's a really spiffy Hewlitt-Packard model, a sleek black icon of the digital age that scans, prints, copies, fax...

Oui, we have a Wii. For those of you who don't know what a Wii is, it's something which allows you to waste vast amounts of time and...

First of all, do you even know what I'm talking about? If you went to school when dinosaurs like Mike and I did, you are probably fami...

Apple recently introduced - to the usual hysteria - it's latest product: the iPad . As gadgets go, it seems to be pretty neat, if only ...

The "perfect crime" is a staple of detective fiction and police procedural novels. Every writer dreams of devising a crime so cle...

Yes, Monday is starting early this week. Yesterday I spent the day power-washing the driveway, washing Agnes's car, weeding the yard, ca...

There are so many serious things I need to write about that I sometimes just have to step back and reset my internal system with something o...

I was at work yesterday morning, minding my own business, when Agnes called to let me know that the power had just gone out at home as she w...

My worthless alarm clock failed to go off this morning, and so I am running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Just out of the sho...

According to history, the auto da fe was a religious ceremony of penance for condemned heretics and apostates that usually culminated in th...

Yes, you already know that machines hate me, for I have bitched and complained endlessly about it here. But their campaign is relentless, a...