Loyal Scaiaholics will recall how I’ve said Texas feels like home. Oregon was lovely, but it just didn’t feel enough like Ohio.UT-Austin, the University of Helsinki and Cambridge got together and said, “Hey, let’s research why he feels more comfortable in Texas.”The picture above is from their personality study. Texas matches my home state…
This week, we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of man’s alleged landing on the moon.Newsrooms across the country started firin’ off phone calls to talk to someone who was connected. One of my coworkers interviewed the mayor of Wapakoneta, Ohio, where Neil Armstrong was born.Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I’m an Ohio native, so I sidled up…
Continuing an occasional series of people in their 90s who I’d want on my side in a fight, I talked to a pilot who was flying over the English Channel on D-Day.To mark the 75th anniversary, a non-profit was working with American Airlines and flew seven veterans from DFW and Miami to France. One of those…
Continuing a series of blog posts involving Dayton, Ohio [and the latest in an ongoing series about pumping gas in the Pacific Northwest. Why doesn’t The Mainstream Media cover these hot-button issues?!]:I’m [Hashtag: Not an Old Man], but one of my hobbies is bragging about cheap gas. I posted this picture on Facebook [Hashtag: It Might…
I woke up this morning to a notification on Facebook about all my associates who marked themselves safe from the “Western Ohio Tornadoes.” I had gone to bed early and didn’t know what had happened.”Where am I, 1974 Xenia?!” I asked myself. People who grew up in Western Ohio totally get that.Loyal Scaiaholics know I grew up…
This tweet has caused a stir among Scaiaholics:Undoctored map of the Midwest as found on google pic.twitter.com/kHdABWxM60— Anders Hagstrom (@Hagstrom_Anders) April 25, 2019I received a text from my first boss alerting me to this tweet. He declared that he laughed out loud when he saw this because Ohio is in the Northeast, not the Midwest…
It’s been cold back home in the Midwest lately. A little too cold, if you ask the US Postal Service. It’s been more than 20 years since Seinfeld first took up the issue of whether letter carriers were really up to the task.This weather is serious, though. Not Al Roker serious, but serious enough to prompt warnings…