Ramblings of a Luddite Geek

I stocked up on paper towels a while back. I bought two packages of the same brand. One was marked as a triple roll; the other, a double r...

LudditeGeek chats with ChatGPT … LG said: Hello, please tell me what you think of the term "Luddite" ChatGPT said: The term...

File names that include a space require special handling. Specifically, the name or path needs to be surrounded by quotation marks when they...

Don't do business with an IT firm whose website contains broken links.  It's like getting a tattoo from a guy with "no regerts...

One of the best pieces of letter-writing advice came from the CT DOL 1 .  The suggestion?  Get your word processor to read your content out ...

In Longing For Layoffs , I lamented the fact that companies now fire employees for (made-up) cause when their businesses tank.  But in the g...

Have you ever flushed a toilet or urinal and noticed that the valve refused to shut? I have. The last time it happened the bathroom below th...

Back in February I wrote about the good old days when employers would lay off non-essential or excess workers in order to remain viable. 1  ...

Direct Deposit eliminates the need to deposit a paycheck into a bank account.  However, you don’t get the "pay stub" that the chec...

  I long for the good old days when a company would lay off its workers. When revenue was down, a company would eliminate the excess workers...

Recently I completed my one thousandth game of Wordle.  Here's a screenshot of my stats:   I win nearly every game I start.  The win per...

As I wait for the Vice Presidential Debate to begin, I’d like to remind you that we have more than two choices. Here’s a list of some candid...

Today, on Labor Day, 9/2, our second dog was euthanized. I was given his ashes four days later, in a sturdy, handsome, lustrous wooden box, ...

Eleven days ago, the CDC reported that a recent outbreak of Listeria most likely was due to Boar’s Head Liverwurst 1 . Since then, Boar’s H...

We lost electrical power when a line of severe thunderstorms swept across our state.  When the power came back 18 hours later, I was surpris...

In my first post about Wordle 1 , I introduced my strategy of starting with “STEAM.” Then I went on to describe word choices if I guessed ...

Here's a Wordle devoted to Towel Day. You can find out more about Towel Day here: https://www.towelday.org/

LudditeGeek chats with Copilot … Hello, please tell me what you think of the term "Luddite" Certainly! The term “Luddite” origin...

You might recall that my starting Wordle word is STEAM, that my strategy is to enter guesses that end in Y, and that I like to choose words ...

Tissues that come in cube-shaped boxes, “aka “cubes,” cost at least twice as much per tissue than those in the rectangular-shaped boxes. Bot...