Recently, I found myself in the San Francisco airport. As I always do, while waiting for the flight, I started juggling. A few minutes later, this guy walks into the waiting room. “Is this the juggling area?” he asks. “Yup”, sez I. And he proceeds to grab five balls out of his carry-on, and starts [...]

Since I don’t enable comments (*sigh* spam), those who want to comment have to e-mail me. Here’s Gina’s response to my last post: Dear R0ml, I am writing to comment on your recent blog post, “Trophy Day”. In paraphrasing what I meant, you may have unintentionally skewed my ideas ever so slightly in order to [...]

My children play a game called “Jinx”. In this game, if two people say the same thing at the same time, then the first person to call out “Jinx!” renders the other one mute. The “jinxed” party can no longer speak until someone says their name out loud. The other day, as I was driving [...]

Gina and I were registered to hear Malcolm Gladwell speak in New York. The evening didn’t go according to plan. Traffic was heavy on the way in — we figured there was probably a Yankee game backing up the Cross Bronx onto the George Washington Bridge. We might have made it if we had left [...]