The rainy weekend gave me a chance to work on my Southern / Norfolk and Western / Norfolk Southern model railroad steam excursion fleet. Older and cheaper n scale equipment is equipped with Rapido couplers, which are not as realistic and cannot be uncoupled with magnets. I swapped out the old Rapido couplers with more [...]
Breitbart reports: Adult Americans spend an average of more than eight hours a day in front of screens — televisions, computer monitors, cellphones or other devices, according to a new study. For office workers, that does not seem surprising given laptop or desktop computer usage. The article continues: The study also found that live television [...]
Normally, I don’t cover celebrity gossip on this site but I thought this article by Telegraph Media Group was noteworthy: Jennifer Aniston has reportedly ended her relationship with musician boyfriend John Mayer because he is obsessed with Twitter, it has been alleged. People claiming to be friends of the actress have told Star magazine that [...]
Bruce Horovitz writes an interesting piece for USA Today about how people are turning to low-tech gardening amidst a deep recession: Hard economic times are acting like instant fertilizer on an industry that had been growing slowly: home vegetable gardening. Amid the Washington talk of “shovel-ready” recession projects, it appears few projects are more shovel-ready [...]
ABC7 News recently did a story on cyberchondria, a condition where self-diagnosis of medical conditions using the Internet can cause anxiety and paranoia. Here is an excerpt: More than 80 percent of Americans use the Internet to access medical information, according to a new report. But doctors say some patients are doing it obsessively… The [...]