Jim Leff's Slog

How shocked would you be to learn the potato chips at IKEA are very, very good? They're made from Red Bliss potatoes (like Terra Chips...

I recently documented, on Facebook , my process of using up leftover wild boar via a series of three hashes. Here's the whole roll: ...

In yesterday's posting, "The Unsolved Mystery of Storing Notes and Data Scraps on Computers" , I mentioned that MacSparky was ...

I recently bumped into the hardest question in current day personal computing. I needed to store two chunks of data somewhere: 1. FedEx I...

You know how Donald Trump's lies are never random? They're always folded back on themselves, so every projection's a confession?...

A musician friend who mastered a very difficult thing (Frank Zappa's notorious Black Page drum solo) complained to me that his family wa...

I wanted to get through this NY Times article on the history behind the Oppenheimer film, but I had some tasks to take care of. So, with mi...

Fourteen years ago I lived in a small town, on a charming street, among sincere families. The daughter of one such family clearly had seriou...

My posting about "Judgement" was a bit of a mess. I've cleaned it up a bunch, so you may want to give it another look. One ...

Gracious Freshness I played with Tony just once, when he sang a set with Illinois Jacquet's big band at the Blue Note in Manhattan. At...