November 2025

The Skinning Cats Idiom

Idioms don’t tend to address sensitivities.  I should note that I have nothing against cats, having owned a few, although I prefer dogs.  I am certainly no expert at,…Read more

“I’ve Been Everywhere…”

Last week my friend Ralph and I went out to lunch with the ladies in our high-flying group that he has described in a piece he read to us…Read more

The Spacetime Interval and Metric

To coordinate observations between coincident but relatively moving observers, one must convert the coordinates of the observed event into those of the other observer. Each observer is associated with…Read more

A Wakeful Thought about thoughts

Sometimes, lying there and realizing — or thinking one is realizing — that one has been awake since the last time one checked the ticking clock, there is a…Read more