Yesterday, Socotra House LLC’s Legal Shop got a call from an old mentor who had stuck things out over at the Columbia Broadcasting System for what would have been a career. Or it would have been if he had done the same amount of time in the armed forces or fire-emergency. Or with the Cops. […]

250 Years Ago on this day, 22 March, the British Parliament Passed the Stamp Act. If you are reading this tomorrow morning, on the 23rd, we get official credit for the last celebration of this daily reminder you will see. Our Section Leader Miles had a throw-away story that he was going to use for […]

The cadre for the pre-weekend production meeting was limited to an equal pallet on gender and approval lines.Miles did not count himself, since usually only one “grown up” is required at these things. “OK,” said Section Leader Miles in the voice of authority he had practiced as a Patrol Squadron Commander in a hundred All […]

The Reuben That Slipped Time The plan had been solid. It always is at the beginning. Tuesday was devoted to the work. Splash, under direction from Miles, was tasked with producing a follow-on to Deierdre’s St. Patrick’s Day Reuben Special Luncheon. Something efficient, scalable, and just a little bit better than it had any right […]

We are showing solidarity with some of our communities today. Dierdre had been threatening a treat to honor our Irish if she got the Galley cleared out. That had occurred late yesterday as the Monster Storm blew north across the Potomac. Keith helped, with the supposition that it would yield a decent plate of something […]

ATMOSPHERIC ALERT BULLETIN KINETIC COVID CLOUD™ Listening for the Next Signal It is Monday and everyone was back. Which is to say, the Boomers who have camped out in the 6th Floor transient suite were down for fresh warm bagels, fruit cups and sausage rolls in the conference room. Dierdre had some mystery going in […]

Legal finished sealing up a busy week of topics Saturday afternoon. The war is big, of course, and it has now entered its third week with American heavy bombers reportedly able to roam at will in the skies over Iran. Civilians have been warned by both sides to stay indoors. That has produced some interesting […]

Arlington / Socotra House PI DAY! 3.14 Pi Day began in 1988, when physicist Larry Shaw organized the first celebration at the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco. The date — March 14 (3.14) — honors the mathematical constant π, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Its digits continue infinitely without repeating, […]

There are enough stories this morning that we have quite run out of fingers. As our Boomers are a group of world ramblers, we were always sensitive to how people lived overseas. When moving through other societies we tried not to intrude too far into what their culture accepted as normal. The idea was to […]

(This is an image of a fellow named Bairon Hernandez, produced through police reporting. Our interns spent more time removing the NYPD markings than digging into his history. They assumed it was bad. Which is what started their contribution.) Miles asked the interns to take a look. It was another in a continuing string of […]