Archive for category: FYI
My day in court
I arrived a few minutes before 9:00 AM at the Waltham District Court and got the last parking space behind the building. I passed through the metal detector and promised to keep my cell phone turned off. I had forgotten to bring the instructions they had mailed me, so I wasn’t sure at first where [...]
The Incomplete History of Shaving Cream
While shaving the other morning I started wondering when human beings started putting this funky white stuff on their faces. The Wikipedia entry was surprisingly bare. More details are available at answers.com (although this article goes far beyond the history of shaving cream, delving into the manufacturing process as well). Still, the Internet is uncharacteristically [...]