Rufus Blooter

Rural South in the US displays vast diversity of quality of food on offer. On the one hand the cheapest, most horrid, engineered, factory-ex...

Thanks (again) to seat61.com, had a successful mission to Amsterdam in which getting there was part of the fun instead of something to dread...

The British seem oddly incompetent when it comes to getting air the right temperature. My office building, not even 30 years old, is routine...

I'm still really liking Evernote. Well worth the price for the premium edition. Glad to see they are doing well and raising more money ....

My new favorite app: planefinder/planefinder HD. Immensely gratifying geek credibility enhancement moment: displaying type, heading, speed, ...

I am well calibrated to some movie reviewers, e.g. Roger Ebert, to the extent that I can usually predict my rating of a movie based on the r...

In 1066, Norman invaded England and forced King Arthur to sign the Magna Carta, which is latin for "molten card". Three generation...

I need a new wallet. Probably a new walleting model. It's way too thick. It's uncomfortable to sit on and not particularly flatterin...

Went to Spitjack's the other day, a small and welcoming place in the village above vicky park, on Lauriston up near the roundabout, on t...

Something I've wanted for years and finally got: a mechanical watch. It is less accurate than my plastic timex and a couple orders of ma...

Couple items in the news caught my eye recently: Iceland issuing sovereign debt for the first time since Global Financial Meltdown, and Swed...

Where the apparent agenda is to obey corporate masters as blatantly as possible. Why bother with pretense at this point? Making conservative...