Humor Archive

• 14February 24, 2010

  Heat, weddings and proposals

  Two days into my India visit, I am still fighting jet lag, heat and the inevitable attacks on my waistline. ...
• 14January 20, 2010

  A welcome bill in the mail

  I was a little surprised to find a bill from the dentist in my mail.  Surely I had paid the...
• 6January 8, 2010

  The recipe for “Sherlock Holmes”

  My biggest mistake in going to see “Sherlock Holmes” was expecting to see Sherlock Holmes in it. It’s true, there was...
• 6January 7, 2010

  Hiking and panicking in the Guadalupe Mountains – 2

  The story continues from here.   We continued our stumbling progress, taking photo after photo and not realizing that we were,...
• 7November 21, 2009

  How snoring spouses help your memory

  Do you have a spouse or a roommate who snores? You are in luck. New research has found that if...
• 10October 28, 2009

  What really happened on the Northwest flight

  By now, most people have heard of the Northwest Airline flight from San Diego to Minneapolis which overshot MSP by...
• 5October 18, 2009

  Organic lawn mowers

  Half our weekends go to maintaining the lawn – mowing, fertilizing, weeding and watering.  Why go to so much trouble?...
• 31October 3, 2009

  Audio lessons for fetuses

  Soon babies will bawl in French. Or perhaps they will bawl in Raag Malhar. The Washington Post had this recent article...
• 30July 29, 2009

  Geeks, Golf and Differential Equations

  Summer is the season for many things. Like tomatoes, or mosquitoes. It is also the season for Golf. In...
• 20April 28, 2009

  Swine flu and ski masks

  I went to see my doctor the other day. “I am worried about this swine flu that’s going around,” I told...