Massachusetts-based author Tracy Kidder’s name has appeared here a few times. Like Jon Krakauer and Michael Lewis, Kidder was a non-fiction writer.
I first read Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine and last read Rough Sleepers. I didn’t read everything in between, but I have fond memories of reading House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. The NYTimes has a good overview of Kidder’s life and writings.
Verizon Fios has been my ISP for exactly twenty years. I dropped Fios TV a year ago, after the forced switch from QAM to IP. The soft picture quality, that compared unfavorably to even DVD, was unacceptable to me.
Verizon is now about to disable Bismo’s DVR. He has a 4K TV, and perhaps Fios IP TV will look better on that than it did on my 2K setup.
Regarding my Internet service, I am once again trying to get the attention of an actual person to address this serious security issue within the Verizon Fios router.
At home, when I disable Wi-Fi on my Pixel 8a phone, leaving 5G/LTE network access, I am able to use Verizon Home remote administration. This is with Normal Security set on the G3100 router and without Remote Administration enabled. Which means that I, or potentially anyone else, can access my Fios home network from anywhere on the Internet. Clearly, the Verizon Home utility has backdoor access into the G3100 router. This is a serious security hole.
A man who speaks constantly, and yet he’s a man of few words.
“They gave us a present and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money.”
Here are the two most notorious credit-grabbers of their respective fields, Stan Lee and Bob Clampett, in a brief interview together, fifty years ago.
Willful ignorance starts at the top with Trump and reaches down to everyone who voted for him.
Yesterday’s Crankshaft comic strip is one to put a smile on Silver Age comic book fans. I’m always pleased to know there are comic strip artists who are comic book fans.
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2026/03/22
The comic book that’s referenced is Green Lantern #19, from 1963, with cover art by Gil Kane (pencil) and Murphy Anderson (ink).
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Lantern_Vol_2_19
I was pleased to see the credit card expiration dates for licensing comics on GoComics have been updated. Previously, 2028 was the last year that was accepted, and the one credit card I have that worked is about to renew.
The copyright information wasn’t included along with the image, so I had to compose it, based on previously licensed strips.
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If you follow the link to the GoComics page, you will see that I didn’t change the strip but I did modify its presentation. Making it vertical was, I felt, essential for its viewing here.
