Do those mosquito zapper things really work?

Ideally, you’d like to go outside and fire up the grill, or weed in the garden, without having a hoard of ferocious mosquitoes circling your head. Unfortunately, it usually doesn’t work out that way.
There’s a huge amount of devices on the market that claim to kill mosquitoes, or drive them out of your yard. So [...]

Yet more damn travel

So, I am being ordered off into the wilderness again–this time to the Black Rock Forest in the Catskill Mountains.  I’ll be attending the OBFS Annual Meeting from the 16th to the 21st.
It’s going to be really pretty, and there will be nice people, but some things give me pause:

It’s a long way, and I [...]