Life at DrTom's

DrTom shares his intellectual inquiries, mental musings, and awkward adventures in upstate New York and around the world. Betcha can’t read just one.

"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
— Ken Kesey

Saturday, December 5, 2009

The tale of the look-alike shoes

(Would you lower your young son into one of these to retrieve an expensive pair of shoes?) In 1985, I took a bunch of grad students fro...

Monday, November 30, 2009

Cell phones: The device I love to hate

I have hated cell phones since their inception. Maybe it is because I have always hated talking on the phone to almost anyone at anytime....

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

My wife, the amenity thief

(Are these items found in a hotel in Hong Kong or in my bathroom in Danby, NY? Answer: both.) Step into any hotel room with my wife an...

Sunday, November 22, 2009

The dispersal of human offspring

(Human offspring disperse for the same reasons as these dandelion seeds, but the effects of dispersal are quite different.) It is norma...

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