Lee Jones

I know that some people among my family and friends consider me to be a technological guru. But it’s worth noting that my most recent technical degree is 27 years old and my technical professional employment ended seven years ago. In short, I am Out of the Loop. That combined with my natural inertia has [...]

Almost exactly 40 years ago, I stopped watching, or caring about, sports played by other people, particularly professionals. For the 2-3 years leading up to that time in 1970, I lived and slept baseball. I played it and I followed the Washington Senators (“First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League) [...]

Over the past weeks and months, I’ve been reading the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, thanks to a $3 purchase for my Kindle (more about Kindles in a moment). I have finally reached the third and final end of the series. The first ending of the series, Holmes was supposed to have gone over Reichenbach Falls, [...]

Dozens of people have gone to this shopping center, never to be seen again. Note:  the only change made to this image from Google maps was to circle the important part in red.

Lisa and I hiked around the Panthertown Valley near Lake Toxaway today. In fact, this is right in the shadow of Cold Mountain, made famous by the (incredibly good and powerful) book by Charles Frazier. Lisa was kind enough to find us a place that had some amount of hiking and some righteous fishing – [...]