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 The Cappadocia region is shown on the map in the previous post.     We arrived in Göreme by bus after dark and walked up to our hotel which...

The year I studied in Göttingen, Germany, we had most of March and April off.  Hitchhiking was my main means of travel out of town, though i...

[Most of this could be considered moaning on my part, though I think that this project inconvenienced way too many people for way too long a...

 The email the other day told me that the plan I'm on with Netflix is being discontinued.  They announced that I would save 40%.  But th...

 [A note.  I thought I posted this this morning.  But when I came back, it was not there.  Not even the draft.  That hasn't happened in ...

I drive my van even less during the winter than the summer.  Partly because I avoid driving as much as a I can.  But also because we spend m...

 I can understand readers here who think I'm spending way too much time on the new Twitter alternative startup Spoutible.   But hear me ...

 A week or so ago an attorney arguing before the US Supreme Court claimed:  [ You can read the transcript here  page 28.] "but, yes, it...

I don't post that much here about COVID anymore, but I do update my (now) weekly COVID page (see tabs above).  It's weekly now beca...

In Dante's 14th Century  The Inferno,  the poet recounts his tour through hell led by Virgil.  At that time there was a political divide...