Jim Leff's Slog

The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value is a much-discussed article about a much-discussed book (Peter Drucker's ...

Fooling around with the iPad version of GarageBand. The title of the first one speaks for itself: "Merry Drunken GarageBand Christmas...

I've figured out what's been bugging me. Many thanks to niece Laura, who helped piece this together. Meet the niece I have, in ...

If you think you can come anywhere near to grasping the immensity of cosmic distances: no. You really can't. Consider: the Voyager 1 s...

Here is a recording of my upstairs neighbors. The only problem is that I have no upstairs neighbors. Above me is an (empty) attic, and, abov...

I was driving with a very young friend named Cathy. We hit a red light, and she groaned with exasperation. "I hate red lights!" sh...

The recently deceased Christopher Hitchins once said "Being a writer is what I am, rather than what I do". That being the case, I...

I don't own a fax machine. Or a landline phone. So faxing's a problem. I'd previously used eFax to fax online, but they stole se...

Time magazine has once again fuzzed up it's person of the year feature by choosing not to select an actual person (remember when the win...

Note to readers bored senseless by all the SIGA talk: this will be the last such posting for a while. News has been particularly eventful, s...