Ramblings of a Luddite Geek

The first day of the year can fall on only one of the seven days of the week. This year, 2026, started on a Thursday. Last year, 2025, sta...

This year, Engineers Week started on Sunday (February 22, 2026).  It always begins on Sunday of the week of George Washington's birt...

You can have an unaddressed envelope arrive at someone’s address or Post Office Box. I discovered this from my annual, end-of-year deluge of...

Liquid meals serve a pseudo-medical purpose: to provide nourishment to people who cannot tolerate solid food.  Energy drinks and gels (a...

Looked at in isolation, USA's actions in Venezuela may seem arbitrary, or a bully's response to being bullied, or a blatant grab ...

If you'd rather use your own text editor to enter content into a web form, you could use and configure a browser extension to establish ...

In a previous post, I demonstrated how to create an Org file that has Moon Void of Course events. However, I found that the events don'...

In my previous post I wrote about how to create a custom calendar in a spreadsheet and then add it to Google calendar. I used the dates and...

Google calendar can be configured to show the phases of the moon.  This view can be enabled in the settings. 1, 2   You can find other c...

A blog post in March on the Proton website 1 recommends several European programs or apps that circumvent potential US privacy violatio...

I had planned to write another of my silly “Forget MAGA...” posts 1, 2 . The new post would have called for a focus on MACFA, or Make All C...

I’ve been a devotee of the Servant Salamander / Altap Salamander file manager 1 for decades. I migrated from Norton Commander (NC) 2 soon ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with President Trump tomorrow. Many political analysts already view this as a victory f...

Why do most folks set their thermostats lower in Summer than in Winter? I’ve seen summer settings at 68°F (20°C), while winter settings are...

Have you noticed that towels don’t seem to absorb water any more?  Pick up a cold drink from the countertop and try to wipe away the rin...

When I was a boy, my shoes and sneakers never wore out.  Sure I would outgrow them when I was in elementary school, but by the time I was a ...

It's the morning of Independence Day in USA.  As I watch bicycles cycle by, I dread tonight's inevitable displays of fireworks.  Of ...

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...