Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie My rating: 4 of 5 stars What I knew about Catherine going into this book: She was a man-hungry woman who died while having sex with a horse. This…
Currently (suspicious Sunday edition)
Has anyone noticed that reCAPTCHA now shows home address numbers? It used to be squiggly passages from books and that was the original goal — to digitize books. Now Google is getting us to help with Street View and it’s…
Friday 5: How Do You Do That?
Look at me getting back in the blog swing of things! Sentences like this usually portend my dropping off the face of the earth for weeks again, but we’ll see. Currently I’m flopped on the sofa recovering from a very…
Throwback Thursday: Old media
Tying back to last week’s Friday 5…it’s not quite a photo, but… I no longer have a functioning CD reader either at home or at work so the contents of this will remain a mystery. I recognize a tiny thumbnail…
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg book review
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon My rating: 4 of 5 stars What can I say? This book made me happy and has something for everyone along the legal knowledge scale, ranging from…
Currently.. (Wrestlemania Sunday)
Watching: WRESTLEMANIA! We have the WWE network and stream it via the Playstation. I’ll be honest, other than New Day there wasn’t a storyline compelling enough that I would have spent the $60 for it this year. Luckily, $9.99 gives…
