Blogging provides a nice secondary outlet for me, but ideas and material continue coming in faster than I can use them, or figure out what to do with them. Paper tends to accumulate on my desk. And every January, I tame the pile by sifting through it for still-useful info, while filing or tossing the rest.

That’s what Sunday’s column consists of: anecdotes, trivia, that sort of thing. I hope you like it. Particularly since there’ll be another column just like it sometime next week, with my leftovers’ leftovers.