At one point I had grand plans for this blog to review whole seasons of a favorite old TV show, The Six Million Dollar Man. Ultimately, I made it as far as the pilot movie, two follow-up TV movies and the…
For no particular reason, I started wondering today about all those portraits of historical figures standing around with their hands thrust into their vests or jackets. It’s an affectation most often associated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but you see it everywhere in old…
From the “Well, Duh…” department comes the shocking news that Facebook is in the business of selling information about their users to anyone and everyone willing to pay for it. Somehow an awful lot of folks seem not to have…
Here’s a fun clip I stumbled across on Youtube. Some enterprising (ha) soul has created an animation of all the battles from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” still the best film in that mixed bag of a series. …
Recently, as I was walking across campus to my car, I found myself fascinated with a telephone pole I’d passed hundreds of times without giving a second glance. It stayed in my thoughts on the drive home, so the next day on…
Well, better than alright, really, but this way I get to invoke a catchy song title. Scott just celebrated his 13th (!) birthday and he kept it a pretty low key affair, hanging around the house with Grandma (visiting from Ohio) and…
