Nellie Blog

Vaska at 0.667 Years Old So Vaska has turned eight months old and is closing in on nine. He's training up real well and without a lot o...

I have officially become an old crank Maybe I've just spent too much time hunched over a keyboard with my friends consisting of disembo...

"How long will it be before 'Forrest Gump' technology becomes the standard tool for spicing up news coverage?" This is t...

Jack steals the king's sheep (a Cornish folktale) When Jack learned that the king was seeking a husband for his daughter, he was sure t...

Covering Breaking News: Watching the network news tonight, the second day after bin Laden's death, they spoke about how "the story ...

Now We Are Six (Months) Vaska turned six months old a couple of weeks ago and I thought I'd document the little fellow's progress....

Why I am not horrified by the TSA search (We've now had more that 24 hours of delighted, hour-topping broadcast outrage over a little ...

747 Cockpit of NASA SOFIA plane. in California I've just started getting weekly pics from 360Cities.net and have thought about passing...

Lecture with music, or vice versa One of the benefits of living in a small community with an Ivy League college is that, if you keep your e...

Me and Gerry, messin' with the media The news of Geraldine Ferraro's death should leave a sense of loss for her position as a ...

Update on a quiet friend Awhile ago, I republished here a column I'd written in 1994 about barbershops and, specifically, about Bob N...