Position: Snoozing Hello friends, do you have trouble sleeping at night? Does your mind race and keep you awake? Do the stresses of the day keep you up late? If so, you need Overnight! The latest wonder drug from Aleta …
No Luddites Here Never let it be said that the crew of Aleta are a bunch of Luddites. Perish the thought! Not only do we embrace fancy navigation technologies like AIS, radar, and satellite communications, as an inherently lazy bunch …
If glamorous camping is ‘glamping’, then surely glamorous boating must be ‘gloating’[1]. Surely! But what constitutes gloating in this new nautical sense? First a couple of root definitions: Boating – means simply messing about in boats. A boat is any …
Position: 37°19’55″N 122°00’32″W Here is a summary of the emotions you might feel when you’re buying a new MacBook Pro. It can be a gut-wrenching and financially draining experience. But at the end, there’s an Apple computer waiting to run …
We are in Italy. We should learn Italian, no? Instead, my friend Tim called me the other morning in the wee hours his time and asked me, ‘How are your futtocks, old man?’ Bemused and caught a little off guard …
Phone booths I am old enough to remember phone booths. You may not be. Your loss since I’m about to expound on them, briefly. Commonplace in cities around the world until the 2000s, phone booths housed many indecencies, including dirty …
Context Setting the anchor is a skill. It is a combination of knowledge, practice, and technology. Entire books have been written about anchoring. Petabytes of online discussion forums have been consumed by the topic. Hundreds of thousands of seadog-years have …
Editor’s Note This document dates from the 18th century. It discusses how a pirate ship ‘The Fagend’ [sic] dealt with a disease identified here as ‘Plague-19’. Captain Diarmid “Blunderbuss” Pew was one of the most notorious and ruthless Borborygme pirates. …
Marlon is our morality police dog. A role he defined for himself. Mostly it is his misguided attempts at protecting Carol from me. It’s either that or a kind of doggopomorphic jealousy. At any public display of affection on the …
