Dishwashers used to be noisy. Very noisy. I remember the one that came with our first home. It was turned on only at night because it took too much effort to hold any type of conversation in the kitchen and adjacent areas while the woodgrain and...

When I was a young boy somewhere in middle school, I loved watching a TV show called Get Smart. It was a comedy based on the daily challenges and missteps of a ‘secret agent’ named Max. The appeal of his character was his obliviousness to what was...