March 27, 2020 0 The Weekender, March 27, 2020 Hi! I’m sure for many of you — if not most of you — the last week or so has been [...]
March 26, 2020 0 Why Does It Feel So Weird To Walk on a Stopped Escalator? The late comedian Mitch Hedberg once observed that “an escalator can never break: it can only become [...]
March 24, 2020 0 The Grass With … Less Gas? There are many dangers in life, way too many to list here. But let’s pick a few anyway. Don’t [...]
March 23, 2020 0 Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Crazy Address Will Prevent The Mail Delivery In the early 1990s, I made a bet with my brother. I don’t remember, exactly, what the bet was over [...]
March 20, 2020 0 The Weekender, March 20, 2020 Hi! Thank you, again, for joining me for another week of Now I Know. Now I Know’s tenth birthday is [...]
March 19, 2020 0 To Boldly Go Where You’re Really Not Allowed To Go Space, according to Star Trek, is “the final frontier.” Over the course of multiple series and [...]
March 17, 2020 0 Harry Potter and the Need for Fewer Casts In June of 1997, the world changed for the better — “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s [...]
March 16, 2020 0 How Postage Almost Started a War Honduras and Nicaragua are Central American countries which, if you look at the map right, above, now, [...]
March 13, 2020 0 The Weekender, March 13, 2020 Hi! For those new to the newsletter, on Fridays, I share a week in review and some long reads for the [...]
March 11, 2020 0 Why Stop Signs Have Eight Sides That’s a stop sign. The dead giveaway? The big word “STOP” on what appears to be a sign. [...]