Learn a New Language with YouTube
Hi blogsters: I rarely talk to young people, though I’ll confess to craftily observing them when I can, watching their interactions reflected in a plate-glass window, sneakily watching them at another...
View ArticleThe Sawmill: Joys and Frustrations
One of the ways Gale makes money for himself is saw-milling mesquite. There’s a guy with heavy equipment bulldozes cedar and mesquite off ranch land, and he pushes big mesquite off to the side instead...
View ArticleThe Ask Old Jules Blog
Jeanne’s migrating the Ask Old Jules feature from Facebook to a blog to be linked to this one. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Facebook thing, here’s what it’s all about. Several years...
View ArticleSorry, Wrong Number.
I don’t get many phone calls here, so a few days ago when the phone rang and a male voice with an accent said something I didn’t understand about ‘technical support’ and ‘your computer’ I kept...
View ArticleFinally it begins to make sense
I read somewhere recently the efforts to teach sign language to great apes since the 1970s gave a lot of them vocabularies large enough to allow IQ tests. The lowest a mountain gorilla ever scored was...
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