My New MacBook
My circa-2011 MacBook finally decided to retire. It got replaced by a new MacBook Air with the new Apple M1 chip. I will give a couple of mini-reviews, but the first thing I want to talk about is its extreme …
My circa-2011 MacBook finally decided to retire. It got replaced by a new MacBook Air with the new Apple M1 chip. I will give a couple of mini-reviews, but the first thing I want to talk about is its extreme …
Wow, I haven’t updated this blog since April 2017. In a way, that makes sense because I started a new job in May 2017 (be sure to check out the wonderful content at babcox.com) and I was concentrating on that. …
What do you get when you mix ancient Roman history with a detective novel with the atmosphere of Raymond Chandler? You will get Roman Blood – A Novel of Ancient Rome, the first in a series of detective novels (Roma …
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This picture, taken in 1967, was the house we lived in North Ridgeville, Ohio, from 1960 to 1972. It is on the corner of Bainbridge and Chestnut Ridge Road. Our family moved into the new house on Labor Day weekend, …
I’m just doing a throw-back Thursday to a day when it was warm this year – this was taken on July 2 – as downtown was getting fixed up for the RNC. I hope I didn’t complain about the heat …
The new “Long Live Rock” sign in front of the Rock Hall appears to be as popular as the script Cleveland signs. On a trip there a couple of weeks ago, there was plenty of interaction with the signs, as …
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to War in 1914 Beginning in 2014, there was a flurry of activity as we came up to the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. Poised to take advantage of the interest …
We will be going to Friday’s game 2 – David Price versus Corey Kluber. We will be sitting very close to where I took this picture a week ago. Since the game starts at 4:30, there probably won’t be a …
Here is the second of the new Cleveland signs. It is on Abbey Avenue, just west of the new Innerbelt bridges. If you would rather place this in relation to sources of Polish food, it is also just west of …
I finally went to see the new “Cleveland” sign at Edgewater Park. It is popular – I had to wait in line as a number of family groups took turns taking their picture with the sign. To make it a …