Sometimes I get carried away with a tangential project and then right when I finish it I get bored with it and forget to tie a bow on it. This blog suffers from that tendency. There are a few things over the years I should have probably written about, but I never got to it. … Read more…
Subtext Last year when I began my journey into my family history, my cousin sent me a box of old photos and documents that she had been collecting over time. I had been knighted the family historian overnight. This box was my first treasure trove of information, it was clearly the culmination of years of … Read more…
Overture Seven years ago I published a post about the price of LEGO and it changed my life. That piece was the culmination of months of research, data collection, analysis and writing. In that seven years, I have drafted a few follow-up posts, the most ambitious of which was a multi-year project tracking the secondary … Read more…
“What happened with Legos? They used to be simple. Oh come on, I know you know what I’m talking about. Legos were simple. Something happened out here while I was inside. Harry Potter Legos, Star Wars Legos, complicated kits, tiny little blocks. I mean I’m not saying it’s bad, I just wanna know what happened.” — … Read more…
Questioning a politician’s honesty seems like a pointless endeavor yet one website dedicates its resources to this task. In an era when news channels are pandering to our emotions and working on obvious agendas, PolitiFact acts as a mediator and fact-checker for the raconteurs of our society. On the PolitiFact site, The Truth-O-Meter® rates a … Read more…