February 20th, 2010
Not to be confused with macadamias. Macadamias. MACADAMIAS! I like macadamias, especially in cookies with white chocolate chips. Actually I like almost anything that has enough calories to put 20 pounds on me in 30 seconds. Calories are what nature puts into food to make it taste good.
December 31st, 2009
I heard recently that “Star Trek has not aged well”. This was a comment on the original series. You know; Shatner, Nimoy, the one from 1966.
My first reaction was to agree.
In the 1970’s, you would have been hard—pressed to find someone who was more of a Trekkie than me. I was even informed by [...]
December 28th, 2009
Here’s something that really grinds my crank. Trying to figure out what the hell things really mean through all the salesmanship, rhetoric, political correctness and outright BULLSHIT that just fills the language today.
December 28th, 2009
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It’s past the year 2000. Where the hell is my flying car?!
When I was growing up, back in the days when slide rules and phonographs roamed the Earth, the Big Date we all looked forward to was the Year 2000. It was a standard metaphor for anything futuristic. The year 2000 was rampant in movie titles. Cherry 2000; Death Race 2000; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Space: 1999. What did we get? Windows 2000. Oh yip.
