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A guy I don’t know emailed me a question. I get a lot of that because I’m easy to find on the internet. He wanted to know if it’s true that all manufacturers stopped maki...

Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a story for this fine magazine I titled it, "Only Gus Touch." Over the years, many people have told me they still remember that tale and as...

A contractor friend decided to take on a part-time job teaching at a local technical school. He had never done this before. “Teaching is hard,” I said.

Here on the Isle of Long, if you throw a stick you’ll probably hit a Target store. I don’t have a problem with that because I really like Target stores. They usually have...

A question asked on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com caught my attention and had me thinking of you. Here ‘tis: When you are doing a job, how do you find the best prices for p...

I’m concerned about what our phones are doing to the way we think and the way we work. I was having lunch with three industry friends and we talked about how it was back ...

I’m 69 years old and my hair is as brown as it was when I was a teenager. A bit of it, mostly around my ears and the back of my neck, sneaks in as gray, but some Russian ...

A project budget is sometimes a loose thing. It begins with great intentions but can get torqued out of the way when someone arbitrarily decides what something should cos...

We live on The Isle of Long, which means that if you throw a rock you’ll hit a large, chrome-plated diner. These palaces of gastronomy have just about anything you could ...

It was the spike in the cost of paper that eventually led to Bailey’s Great Experiment. The printer blamed the 50 percent increase on El Niño and lousy weather in the Pac...