Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

Warning ... this post deals with no-kidding adult topics. You may want to not let your children read any further. Just sayin' ... Dat...

We all like to complain about our jobs from time to time. Of course, in times like these, when we're lucky just to have jobs, it doesn...

Last Monday we celebrated Labor Day, the one day a year on which we dignify the common worker in between trips to the mall. There are a lot...

You know, Dear Readers, that you have lots of things to worry about nowadays ... political ass-clownery, an economy in ruins (largely thanks...

In the absence of our long-lost (and very much missed) fellow blogger Numeric Life , I've written about big numbers several times - you ...

A while back at the wonderful blog Indexed , Jessica posted this card: If you walk down the street, take public transportation, or visit the...

Depending on how long you've been with me on this blogging journey, you may remember a post I wrote back on December 17th of 2006 on th...

When you're snowed in, the first thing you have to do is dig yourself out. After you've done that and discovered that you still can...

When I say the words root canal , what mental image forms? (a) Pain? (b) Suffering? (c) Enormous expense? (d) All of the above? The correc...

One of the royal pains of modern living is the tendency of people to use their cell phones everywhere, all the time, at full volume, regardl...