April 8, 2025

We’re going to dive down a rabbit hole into the world of collecting Lewis Carroll books. You know the phrase “going down a rabbit hole” comes from Alice In Wonderland, right? Book collecting has been called “a gentle madness.” Maybe you’ve known a collector – but do you really know what specific insanity drove that…

January 28, 2025

I’m going to change what arrives in your mailbox in a very minor way. You don’t have to do anything except whitelist my emails when they get sent to junk mail. (Gmail sometimes sends them to “Promotions” for some reason.) Here’s the short version. I’m retired from consulting but I’m still going to write about…

January 7, 2025

Jim Rowson passed away on December 26. There will be an online memorial for family, friends, and colleagues on Saturday, January 18 at 2:00pm. The Zoom link will be sent separately to our mailing list. If you don’t receive the email and you’d like to attend, please visit https://arrgle.com on Saturday morning for the link. Please do not…

December 31, 2024

“Celebrate while you still can Cause any second it may end . . .” – Oingo Boingo, No One Lives Forever Jim Rowson passed away peacefully on December 26, 2024 at age 70 from fucking cancer. (That was his term for it, and the fucking cancer deserved the abuse, the sneaky bastard.) He was a visionary…