LightGrams December 8, 2016 Volume 20, Number 39 Wanda Dench of Mesa, Arizona was making her plans for the family Thanksgiving meal. She texted her invitations to family members, including her grandson. What Wanda didn’t know was that the grandson had changed his phone number. Her text went to a complete stranger, Jamal Hinton. Once…
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LightGrams December 1, 2016 Volume 20, Number 38 A meeting is planned for later this month in Washington, D.C. to discuss removal of highway signs in New York. At issue are more than 500 signs, scattered along the Interstate highways in that state. The theme that appears on each of those signs is “I Love…
LightGrams November 17, 2016 Volume 20, Number 37 An incredible story was reported by several news sources earlier this month. An 82-year-old man found the wedding ring he had lost three years earlier. That in itself is not odd, but where he found it was astonishing: It was wrapped around a carrot. The ring was…
LightGrams November 10, 2016 Volume 20, Number 36 For years the Hershey Company has used a simple jingle to advertise their Kit Kat candy bars: “Gimme a break …” (You can easily find the tune on YouTube if you’re not familiar with it.) A few days ago that message took on a deeper meaning. Hunter…
LightGrams November 3, 2016 Volume 20, Number 35 It’s not that Olexander Turin, a 20-year-old native of Ukraine, disliked his name. In fact he may change back to his original name when he has children. For now, however, you should refer to him as iPhone Sim (Seven). Is this a hoax? Apparently not. The Associated…
LightGrams October 27, 2016 Volume 20, Number 34 “Driverless Vehicles” Passing big rigs on Interstate highways is a common phenomenon. There are so many of those vehicles, you can’t drive ten miles without seeing several. Rarely do I notice the one who is driving the truck; even if I tried, they sit so much higher…
LightGrams October 20, 2016 Volume 20, Number 33 A week in a cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee was just what my wife and I needed. Making the opportunity even better was that much of our family would be able to join us for some or all of the time, including our five…
LightGrams October 6, 2016 Volume 20, Number 32 As I write this, evacuations are continuing along the coastal areas of the Southeastern U.S. Hurricane Matthew is projected to make landfall later this evening, and it is a powerful storm. The potential for destruction and loss of life is great. Orders issued by governors of three…
LightGrams September 29, 2016 Volume 20, Number 31 On Saturday, September 17, 2016, a 31-year-old man found himself in a potentially life-threatening situation. He and a friend had walked out onto a jetty in Narragansett, Rhode Island. He bent down to retrieve a dropped cell phone, and became stuck between two large rocks from his…
LightGrams September 15, 2016 Volume 20, Number 30 You know right away what I’m referring to, don’t you? It’s an almost universal maxim that children follow (their parents often do, too). If you accidentally drop a chicken nugget onto the floor, do you eat it? “Five-second rule!” is the usual reply, meaning that if you…