Online Name Game: New Website!

ThinkableOrNot.com. Finally decided on a name for my new website. Wasn’t easy, as chronicled in three previous posts (parts one, two and three). Some names I liked a lot, like thinkerer and heystack, were unavailable — or available for some exorbitant fee. We’re talking thousands of dollars. Friends were asked to pick their favorite from a list. Opinions split. Read More …

How to rig a football to deflate (Update)

UPDATE Jan. 27, 2015:  Physicist spells out a way to make footballs “shrivel to completely flat after cooling.” ORIGINAL POST The New England Patriots could have legally rigged footballs to wind up underinflated. Patriots head coach Bill Bellichick spelled out much of this scenario in a news conference much of the media apparently failed to understand. He Read More …

Back in the act!

Let the resurrection begin. After 25 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and two more at Philly.com, I finally totally on my own, ready to share, ready to dare, ready to stare .. at the walls, if you know what I mean. Over the last six or years since I last blogged, I’ve learned a lot Read More …

Edible Tree Leaves!

While cooking spinach for an omelet, i thought: Why can’t this stuff grow on trees? Indeed, when you think about it, tree leaves might be the most abundant “vegetable” there is. Except you can’t eat them! Just imagine if some tree like a maple were genetically engineering so that its leaves were nutritious and tasty! Good grief! We’d increase Read More …

A Solution to Foreclosure Crisis? Play Dominos … or Mortgage Musical Chairs

More than two million homes are expected to be foreclosed this year. What a waste. All because the owners can’t affort the particular payment on that house. Hmm. So what if we switched the people and the houses? Orchestrated a kind of mortgage musical chairs? Take Joe. Can’t afford his $600,000 house. But he could afford the Read More …