Taxi Wars

Medicine has made great progress abandoning harmful treatments since its accidental euthanization of President George Washington in 1799. Bu...

An anecdote on the toxic mix of gullibility and false authority Somewhat recently I went to visit my mother. I'd seen reports of a lun...

A few months ago I got a txt message from my one-time taxi passenger. It said she'd passed: I sometimes saved passengers' phon...

Media reports about the predicaments of public servants remind me of the passenger who brought my efforts as a taxi driver full-circle. S...

The name given to the  Arizona Department of Corrections  expresses society's hope that we can help people who cause problems for others...

Most taxi fares are short trips. The taxi company's meter started at $2.95; some people's fares only got up to $3.20. The minimum fo...

The current posts and pages here were originally posted as diaries at kuro5hin.org (K5). I'd started blogging about my taxi passengers a...

One night I pulled up to the now-closed 7-11 convenience store near 35th Ave and Thomas. The taxi computer said the passenger's name was...

While reading on the internet recently, I was reminded of a passenger... The pickup address was at the Mercedes Benz dealership on Scotts...

50C (122F) is a a hot day in Phoenix. It's only ever made it to 50C once in the last hundred years, in 1990 . We lived in the northern p...

When I borked my laptop with the Windows 10 preview this past summer , I was in a bit of a pickle. My Windows Vista desktop was in my minist...

My father had the news on when I went to visit him a few weeks ago. Did you all hear about that Delta flight to NYC that slid off the runway...

A few months ago I noticed that my laptop's LCD backlight powered off if I leaned the screen most of the way back. The image was still v...

For some time I have quipped when asked for an id, "You're not a real person if you don't have a plastic card." This was ...