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MARCH 2006


    11 March 2006 - First entry - "Me"
  12 March 2006 - Using your GPS to Save Gas
  13 March 2006 - Bread
  14 March 2006 - Aggregation
  15 March 2006 - Infrequent Flyer
  16 March 2006 - Me and My PLUCO
  17 March 2006 - A New Season
  20 March 2006 - One Use for a Live Cat
  21 March 2006 - Tick, Tick, What?
    22 March 2006 - The RIKL Lottery
  23 March 2006 - Triage
  24 March 2006 - Picking on CNN for the First Time
  27 March 2006 - Back Formation for Couch Formation
  28 March 2006 - Yop, yet another way to save energy
  29 March 2006 - An Important Political Observation
  30 March 2006 - Taunting CNN Yet Again
 

31 March 2006 - A Shameless Commercial Plug


APRIL 2006


  03 April 2006 - Calibrating Risibility
  04 April 2006 - Home Heating
  05 April 2006 - Edrive
  06 April 2006 - Death
  07 April 2006 - The Passing of the Skybar
    10 April 2006 - Radioactive Money
  11 April 2006 - Oblivious Poetry
  12 April 2006 - Kodak
  13 April 2006 - Eat Your Veggies
  14 April 2006 - The Embarrassment of Spam
    17 April 2006 - Gimme!
  18 April 2006 - Salubrium
  19 April 2006 - SUV's and Rectangular Craters
    20 April 2006 - SSSS
  21 April 2006 - The Great Kopeck Caper Part 1
  24 April 2006 - The Great Kopeck Caper Part 2
    25 April 2006 - A Deep Subject
  26 April 2006 - The Sales Tax You Don't Know You're Paying
  27 April 2006 - The Heartbreak of Hills
  28 April 2006 - Another Why Can't You Give Me What I Want

MAY 2006


  01 May 2006 - Knowing What to Say
  02 May 2006 - Sequencing Acronyms
  03 May 2006 - Computers as Furniture
  04 May 2006 - Preparing Tea with Lemon
    05 May 2006 - Whoopie!  A Power Failure!
  08 May 2006 - Cerenkov, Oh Cerenkov...
  09 May 2006 - I Fear I Must Disclaim You
  10 May 2006 - The Thoninar Syndrome
    11 May 2006 - An Iconic Blog
    12 May 2006 - Broadcast Nostalgia
  15 May 2006 - My Favorite Organ
  16 May 2006 - Watch That Ukase
  17 May 2006 - Electric Blankets
  18 May 2006 - To Blog or Not To Blog
  19 May 2006 - My Spasm of Rectitude
  22 May 2006 - The NYC Apple Store
    23 May 2006 - Look Up "Cute" in the Dictionary
  24 May 2006 - Barns and Nobelium
  25 May 2006 - Macrutia
  26 May 2006 - Traffic Analysis - Part 1
  30 May 2006 - Traffic Analysis - Part 2
 

31 May 2006 - Traffic Analysis - Part 3


JUNE 2006


    01 June 2006 - Alternative Fuel
  02 June 2006 - Who's Spamming Now?
  05 June 2006 - The US Dept. of Unintended Consequences
  06 June 2006 - Tow away?  Or Fly Away?
  07 June 2006 - Memory of Chemistry
    08 June 2006 - Fun With Fractions
  09 June 2006 - The Factor Factor
  12 June 2006 - For You, Mr. Spacelab Hat
  13 June 2006 - The Earthquake Bungee
  14 June 2006 - I Must be Wrong
    15 June 2006 - Art is a Dirty Business
    16 June 2006 - Ribbit
  19 June 2006 - Fifteen Years to Life
  20 June 2006 - Chocolate Morphology
  21 June 2006 - Asimov and the Eternals
    22 June 2006 - Bakeric Advice
  23 June 2006 - Network Neutrality
  26 June 2006 - Gas Prices
  27 June 2006 - FAQing for a Friend
  28 June 2006 - What Kind of Foot are You?
  29 June 2006 - Ben's Best Bent Wire
  30 June 2006 - Just What I Don't Need - A New Computer

JULY 2006


  03 July 2006 - My Fourth of July Accident
  05 July 2006 - Advice for Warren Buffett
  06 July 2006 - More Advice - Cell Phone Industry:  Attention!
  07 July 2006 - What's a Trillion to CNN?
  10 July 2006 - Annual Rituals
    11 July 2006 - No Whine Today
  12 July 2006 - Dueling Demos
    13 July 2006 - Two Unusual Natures
  14 July 2006 - Danger, Danger... Well Maybe Not
  17 July 2006 - Missed Opportunity and Another Idiot Light
    18 July 2006 - The Middle East, Starring Snookie The Cat
  19 July 2006 - Another Power Glitch
  20 July 2006 - If Music Grew On Trees
  21 July 2006 - Wendy
    24 July 2006 - Not the Exploding Kind
  25 July 2006 - A Time-Saving Sockret
  26 July 2006 - A Valuable Safety Feature
    27 July 2006 - Wired
    28 July 2006 - No Quarter Anniversary is This
  31 July 2006 - The End of the World

AUGUST 2006


  01 August 2006 - Dumbth
  02 August 2006 - Defying Calculation
  03 August 2006 - Walking With Amelia
  04 August 2006 - Empty Spam & Numbers Stations
  07 August 2006 - Evolution in Stasis
  08 August 2006 - A Festive Art
  09 August 2006 - Aleatory Obnubilation
  10 August 2006 - Living Vicoriously
  11 August 2006 - The Thing With the Flashing Lights
    14 August 2006 - Touting the Boni
  15 August 2006 - Arbitrary
  16 August 2006 - A Cup of Frog
  17 August 2006 - Perfection
  18 August 2006 - Perfection-Part II
  21 August 2006 - Scanning the Headlines
  22 August 2006 - Theremin Thoughts
  23 August 2006 - Elon & Andy
  24 August 2006 - The Monversometer
  25 August 2006 - Almost Enough...
  28 August 2006 - QVMF
  29 August 2006 - Astronomy License
    30 August 2006 - An Unanticipated Benefit of Tribology
  31 August 2006 - Near-Miss

SEPTEMBER 2006


MP3 Link   01 September 2006 - How Big is Your Planet?
MP3 Link   05 September 2006 - How Big is Your Planet? (Part 2)
  06 September 2006 - Lazy
  07 September 2006 - See How Easy It Is?
    08 September 2006 - Getting SeriUPS
  11 September 2006 - Get Away from the Window
  12 September 2006 - A Nautical Adventure
    13 September 2006 - Follows-Up
  14 September 2006 - Cafeteria Pass
  15 September 2006 - A SETI Day Q and A
  18 September 2006 - A Blouse for Howard
  19 September 2006 - The Cost of Blogging
  20 September 2006 - Demolition Party
MP3 Link   21 September 2006 - Frizzy, Benign, and MAD
MP3 Link   22 September 2006 - And Now This:
MP3 Link   25 September 2006 - This Is A Yne
    26 September 2006 - USDUC Watch - The Hybrid Tax Rebate
MP3 Link   27 September 2006 - Dith Pran
MP3 Link   28 September 2006 - What Happened to the Gloeilampenfabrieken?
MP3 Link   29 September 2006 - The Man With A Moon

OCTOBER 2006


MP3 Link   02 October 2006 - The Rigors of Space Travel
    03 October 2006 - "Think Like A Richard" Quiz
MP3 Link   04 October 2006 - A Weekend of Discovery
MP3 Link   05 October 2006 - Scum by Reflex
MP3 Link   06 October 2006 - "Think Like A Richard" Quiz Answers
    09 October 2006 - Dog for a Day
MP3 Link   10 October 2006 - Save a Life, Waste a Life
MP3 Link   11 October 2006 - Martha and Me
MP3 Link   12 October 2006 - The Dog Days of the DMV
    13 October 2006 - RIKL's Reviews
MP3 Link   16 October 2006 - The Third Pen
MP3 Link   17 October 2006 - A Flash of Vance
MP3 Link   18 October 2006 - A Wry Awry
MP3 Link   19 October 2006 - Beauty Pageant
MP3 Link   20 October 2006 - Nuclear-Armed Holdout
MP3 Link   23 October 2006 - My Kind of Solar System
MP3 Link   24 October 2006 - Baudy Vignettes
MP3 Link   25 October 2006 - Memory of Memories
MP3 Link   26 October 2006 - A Small Fishtery
MP3 Link   27 October 2006 - A REALLY Big Deck of Cards
MP3 Link   30 October 2006 - CPU Day?
MP3 Link   31 October 2006 - Told You So!

NOVEMBER 2006


MP3 Link   01 November 2006 - Trial By Wind
MP3 Link   02 November 2006 - How to Bananafy The Bun
MP3 Link   03 November 2006 - Lightning
MP3 Link   06 November 2006 - Serendipity
MP3 Link   07 November 2006 - Susan the Dead Ex-Roommate
MP3 Link   08 November 2006 - The Rocky Coast of Maine
MP3 Link   09 November 2006 - Creeping Solutionism
    10 November 2006 - Massaging the Winners
MP3 Link   13 November 2006 - The No Cukes Movement
MP3 Link   14 November 2006 - Aide Plucoire
MP3 Link   15 November 2006 - Three Common Words
MP3 Link   16 November 2006 - You've Been Warned
    17 November 2006 - Follows-Up II
    20 November 2006 - Bush Talks Iraq in Vietnam
MP3 Link   21 November 2006 - A Time for Mailing
MP3 Link   22 November 2006 - Evolution in Action
MP3 Link   24 November 2006 - FCC Friday
MP3 Link   27 November 2006 - The Gravlens and the Nirbs
    28 November 2006 - RIKLReviewTM - Tire Pressure Sensor
MP3 Link   29 November 2006 - An Embarrassment of Shrimp
MP3 Link   30 November 2006 - Financial Advice

DECEMBER 2006


MP3 Link   01 December 2006 - Things That Take Too Long
    04 December 2006 - I'm Such a Comfort
MP3 Link   05 December 2006 - MOMMY
MP3 Link   06 December 2006 - DR Madness and the Sacred Waveform
    07 December 2006 - Linty the Frog
MP3 Link   08 December 2006 - How Not to Write a Blogitem
MP3 Link   11 December 2006 - Scallop Fraud
MP3 Link   12 December 2006 - The Element Geek
MP3 Link   13 December 2006 - Streamlining
MP3 Link   14 December 2006 - They're Gone
MP3 Link   15 December 2006 - Why I Love Heart
    18 December 2006 - My Sentiments Exactly
MP3 Link   19 December 2006 - Rejected!
MP3 Link   20 December 2006 - "Impossible For God"
MP3 Link   21 December 2006 - Gresham's Law, Leftsover, and the Mobility of Starving Children
MP3 Link   22 December 2006 - Ben's Best Bids 'Bye
MP3 Link   26 December 2006 - My Christmas Gift
MP3 Link   27 December 2006 - A Christmas Miracle
MP3 Link   28 December 2006 - Catch 20-Q
MP3 Link   29 December 2006 - What a Year it Hasn't Been!

2007


JANUARY 2007


MP3 Link   02 January 2007 - Old Year's Resolutions
MP3 Link   03 January 2007 - Guck?
    04 January 2007 - RIKLReviewTM - Motorola Q "Smartphone - Part 1"
    05 January 2007 - RIKLReviewTM - Motorola Q "Smartphone - Part 2"
MP3 Link   08 January 2007 - A Charitable $2lemma
MP3 Link   09 January 2007 - Sympathy for the Devil
MP3 Link   10 January 2007 - Out of Sodium
MP3 Link   11 January 2007 - What Have I Done For Apple Users Lately?
    12 January 2007 - They Came to Take Them Away
MP3 Link   15 January 2007 - Nobody Beats the Wiz
MP3 Link   16 January 2007 - Editorial Glaze
MP3 Link   17 January 2007 - The Color of Ms
    18 January 2007 - What's the TIme, Factor?
MP3 Link   19 January 2007 - A Surprise Bluetooth Benefit
MP3 Link   22 January 2007 - Have You Stopped Your Neutrino Yet?
MP3 Link   23 January 2007 - Harpage
MP3 Link   24 January 2007 - The End of an Eggra
MP3 Link   25 January 2007 - EPA, MPG, and RCF
MP3 Link   26 January 2007 - A Bit More Prius Babble
     
    30 January 2007 - Mandy & Improbable Rider
MP3 Link   31 January 2007 - Mt. Dora

FEBRUARY 2007


MP3 Link   01 February 2007 - Those Profligate French People
MP3 Link   02 February 2007 - The 8002R Saga
MP3 Link   05 February 2007 - Joe Checks Out
MP3 Link   06 February 2007 - Taking the Deb Challenge
MP3 Link   07 February 2007 - The Man With the Telepath Hat - Part 1
MP3 Link   08 February 2007 - The Man With the Telepath Hat - Part 2
MP3 Link   09 February 2007 - Hope
MP3 Link   12 February 2007 - Steve Jobs & The Mystery of the Missing Point
MP3 Link   13 February 2007 - A Foot of Partly Cloudy
MP3 Link   14 February 2007 - Party Parser Prevents Prosopagnosia
MP3 Link   15 February 2007 - A Valuable Safety Tip
    16 February 2007 - This Strange Internet
MP3 Link   19 February 2007 - Synchronization
MP3 Link   20 February 2007 - RIKLReviewTM - The KILL A WATTTM
MP3 Link   21 February 2007 - Reversed Priorities
MP3 Link   22 February 2007 - Brrrr
MP3 Link   23 February 2007 - Full Circle
    26 February 2007 - Allies
MP3 Link   27 February 2007 - Richard the Guinea Pig Goes Quantity Surveying
MP3 Link   28 February 2007 - The Meaning of Something

MARCH 2007


MP3 Link   01 March 2007 - Harry Browne Special Report
MP3 Link   02 March 2007 - Pols We Have Known
MP3 Link   05 March 2007 - My Home Town
    06 March 2007 - STV
MP3 Link   07 March 2007 - It's Been a Whinle
MP3 Link   08 March 2007 - Mondegreens, 5th Graders, and the Pluco of Doom
MP3 Link   09 March 2007 - The Man With a Crater
    12 March 2007 - Big Trouble

APRIL 2007


MP3 Link   12 April 2007 - Scofflaw Яn't Me
MP3 Link   17 April 2007 - A Minor Irony
MP3 Link   18 April 2007 - Disclaimer
MP3 Link   22 April 2007 - Web Mischief with Kim Philby
MP3 Link   25 April 2007 - My Renaissance Dream
MP3 Link   26 April 2007 - This Just In - Opportunity in Colombia
MP3 Link   29 April 2007 - There's Hope

MAY 2007


MP3 Link   02 May 2007 - Crash and Breathe
    07 May 2007 - It Had to be a Ten?
MP3 Link   13 May 2007 - Three Thousand Degrees
MP3 Link   16 May 2007 - RIKL ReviewTM - The Smart Spin PLUCOmatic
MP3 Link   22 May 2007 - Pandora's Problem
MP3 Link   27 May 2007 - The Telepath Who Buckled Her Corzine
MP3 Link   31 May 2017 - Take That, ARRL

June 2007


MP3 Link   04 June 2007 -  A Scary Recall
MP3 Link   07 June 2007 - Who Wants Yesterday's Woot!?
MP3 Link   09 June 2007 - Getting Attention
    11 June 2007 - Get It?
MP3 Link   13 June 2007 - The Freemoney Saga Continues
MP3 Link   17 June 2007 - Only Following Orders
MP3 Link   20 June 2007 - A Busy Day in PriUPS Land
MP3 Link   24 June 2007 - Evil Airline Scum and Carbon Monoxide
MP3 Link   29 June 2007 - Channeling Colonel Hall (A non-Richard reading:)

July 2007


MP3 Link   03 July 2007 - Mulch Madness - The Entries
MP3 Link   04 July 2007 - Extracted From a Long iPhone Review
MP3 Link   05 July 2007 - Mulch Madness - The Winner!
MP3 Link   08 July 2007 - The Wages of Short
MP3 Link   11 July 2007 - News from Dell and Elsewhere
MP3 Link   13 July 2007 - Repeat of a Sellout
MP3 Link   15 July 2007 - The Reappearing Man
MP3 Link   19 July 2007 - Blue
MP3 Link   21 July 2007 - Why It's Hard Sometimes to Come Up With a Good Title
MP3 Link   24 July 2007 - The Other Guy
MP3 Link   26 July 2007 - A Fan Letter to the Atlantic Ocean
MP3 Link   29 July 2007 - Preventing Day Ruination
MP3 Link   31 July 2007 - Turkeys and Bright Yellow Fungi

August 2007


MP3 Link   03 August 2007 - A Blogblast from the Past
MP3 Link   05 August 2007 - Double-Secret Discount
MP3 Link   12 August 2007 - Construction Begins
MP3 Link   15 August 2007 - The Birds, the Bats, and the Humans
  17 August 2007  - Open Letter to Rental Car Companies With Hybrid Fleets
MP3 Link   20 August 2007 - August
MP3 Link   25 August 2007 - Sandcastles in the Hourglass — Guilty Pleasures and Satisfying Segues
MP3 Link   27 August 2007 - RIKLBLOG - A Heap of Arts and Asimovs
MP3 Link   30 August 2007 - I Saved Three Lives

September 2007


MP3 Link   03 September 2007 - Fun With Mirrors
MP3 Link   05 September 2007 - Fun With Mirrors - Part 2
MP3 Link  

08 September 2007 - Fun With Mirrors - Part 3

MP3 Link   16 September 2007 - Fun With Mirrors - Part 4 - The Factor Mirror Drive
MP3 Link   18 September 2007 - Meredith's Million, Whittaker's Million$
MP3 Link   21 September 2007 - Hedging Dollar Inflation With the Pound
MP3 Link   23 September 2007 - The Modular Volt
MP3 Link   27 September 2007 - The Uni-l-ular Conundra

October 2007


MP3 Link   05 October 2007 - Happy Anniversary, Space Age
MP3 Link   11 October 2007 -The Computer Ate My Life
MP3 Link   14 October 2007 - Taken for Granite
MP3 Link   21 October 2007 - A Potpourri Of The Winnowed
MP3 Link   23 October 2007 - My Tree!  My Squirrel!  My Brand!
MP3 Link   24 October 2007 - My Brand!
MP3 Link   26 October 2007 - The NEW Swag
MP3 Link   28 October 2007 - Fewer Opinions, More Dollars
MP3 Link   31 October 2007 - Hot Tub BOOtenanny

November 2007


MP3 Link   11 November 2007 - The V-Word
MP3 Link   13 November 2007 - Simplicity
    21 November 2007 - The Fudge Lady and Other Tales
    23 November 2007 - And the Winner Isn't...
    24 November 2007 - Nutrition  Facts
    25 November 2007 - Water Pitchers From the Past
    28 November 2007 - An UnSEEmly Tax Problem

December 2007


    02 December 2007 - Time For A Cute Puppy
    23 December 2007 - The Cute Puppy Ate My Blog
    30 December 2007 - A Hospital Mystery
    31 December 2007 - This Year in Richard- and PriUPS-Land


2008


January 2008


    05 January 2008 - Administrivia
    16 January 2008 - An Interesting Problem In Recursion
    30 January 2008 - How Dead This Horse?

February 2008


    04 February 2008 - RIKL REVIEW - Ford Escape Hybrid Navigation and Entertainment Display
    09 February 2008 - More Administrivia - "Subscription" Problem
    17 February 2008 - A Very Special Bag of Chocolate
    19 February 2008 - Say Cheese!

March 2008


    23 March 2008 - Twelve Million Dollars Later
    25 March 2008 - No Substitute for Swiss Cheese

April 2008


    06 April 2008 - The Great Northern New Jersey Swiss Cheese Crisis and Other Thoughts
    09 April 2008 - Two Critical Inventions
    16 April 2008 - Protocol
   

22 April 2008 - Things You Can't Do Any More (About Which I Am Not At All Pleased)

    24 April 2008 - The Days of Rice and Sugar
    26 April 2008 - The Sugar Harvest

May 2008


    05 May 2008 - Accuracy vs. Precision
    10 May 2008 - Nature in Peril
    28 May 2008 - Красная площадь
    30 May 2008 - The Mighty Mulch Mountain Meets Its Maker
    31 May 2008 - Selling Out

June 2008


    02 June 2008 - Bo Is Not Short For Beauregard
    16 June 2008 - Look What Tony Found
    17 June 2008 - My Commute As A Voltage Graph
    28 June 2008 - Your Plug-In Prius
    30 June 2008 - Melissa Etheridge Concert Non-Review

July 2008


    03 July 2008 - Toyota's Novel Idea
    17 July 2008 - The Magnetowel
    18 July 2008 - Fluctuations
    25 July 2008 - Disposing of the Airlines
    26 July 2008 - Disposing of the Airlines, Part 2

August 2008


    01 August 2008 - An Elemental Puzzle and A Chemical Conundrum
    05 August 2008 - Qs and Muses
    06 August 2008 - The Flies Are Better in the Late Afternoon Under the Japanese Maple
    16 August 2008 - New Toys, New Conspiracy
    19 August 2008 - PLUCOnic Advice and Missing Presence
    21 August 2008 - A Whole Lot Of Synthin' Goin' On
    22 August 2008 - A Whole Lot Of Synthin' Goin' On - Part 2

September 2008


    03 September 2008 - Bingo!
 
 
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