The cordless drill that I’d received as a wedding present years ago — about the only thing among the towels and plates and what-not that I was able to claim as definitively manly and therefore mine — unceremoniously croaked about two months ago. Immediately, eight things around the house needed …
I have a speaker-dock in the office for my trusty iPod Touch, but more often than not I find myself listening to streaming music via Pandora instead. Why? Well, mostly because it continues to find me great music I’d otherwise never hear. My main Pandora “radio station” is built around …
One of my current academic projects in process is a book bringing together most of the known material on the 937 CE Battle of Brunanburh — one of the most important (but often forgotten) battles in the history of England. I’m General Editor for the volume, which in this case …
In October I decided to invest a little bit of money in the stock market. Not a lot of money, mind you, but some. I did so with full willingness to lose every dime, which seems to me to be the only reasonable approach to gambling. And buying stocks, if …
January is “Be a Tourist in Your Own Town” month here in Charleston, which means we’re getting into all the tourist things really cheap. Today we visited the museum/conservatory where the Confederate submersible H. L. Hunley lies suspended in a really big tank of water. (If you’re unfamiliar with the …