Posted in Entertainment, Humor, Life, Music, News, News and Politics, Politics on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rush on The Colbert Report. You don’t see these guys in interviews very often, especially all three of them, but the more I see them the more I really enjoy their sense of humor. Oh - and the music? “Do you ever get tired of being so awesome and kicking so much ass?” “No, I [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Humor, Life, News, News and Politics on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Of course it’s no longer news that George Carlin died yesterday. I saw him in concert once when I was in college. At the time I found his comedy really amusing, the play with words, the willingness to question things no one else would. Listening to interviews with him years later I came to have [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Humor, Life, Writing on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am not a linguist, a grammarian, or a teacher, nor do I play any of those on television. However, I am a good speller (city-wide champion in eighth-grade back in 1976 - - you do the math), and I try not to mistreat the English language too much. One thing I am especially careful not to [...]
Posted in Computers, Computers and Internet, Entertainment, Hobbies, Internet, Life, Music, News, News and Politics, Science and Technology, Technology on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wireless. It’s hip, it’s modern, it’s what’s new. It’s also retro, quaint, and old fashioned. Radio has been around for more than a hundred years, had its “Golden Age” before television “killed” it years ago. Not so much killed it, I suppose, as severely wounded it.
And yet, radio endures. Commercial radio, however, is now as [...]
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Humor, Life, News, News and Politics on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Actually, the title should be “How to Be a Millionaire and Never Pay Taxes.” Money Magazine has half the secret. Steve Martin has the other.
Posted in Cooking, Entertainment, Food, Food and Drink, Humor, Life on February 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Proof that cabin fever is reaching epidemic proportions: Mark Bittman featuring a tomato as “guest host, good friend and colleague” for his segment as “The Minimalist” on roasted tomato soup.
Talking to, and speaking as the voice of Mr. Tomato Face? Clearly evidence this interminable winter has taken its toll. Now I don’t feel so bad about [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Life, News, News and Politics, Sports on February 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Someone isn’t telling the truth,” Representative Henry Waxman (D-California) said of the conflicting testimony from Brian McNamee and Roger Clemens. McNamee and Clemens appeared today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In the Mitchell Report on the use of steroids and other performance enhancing substances by players in Major League Baseball, McNamee claims to [...]
Posted in Automobiles, Computers, Computers and Internet, Entertainment, Hobbies, Life on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Another entry from the “late to the party files”: PC driving games. More precisely, auto racing simulation software. Games don’t have to ground themselves in reality. Simulations are a completely different story and, for me, the history of the PC and simulation software go hand-in-hand.
There is something deeply satisfying in mastering a new skill, in acquiring and developing [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Life, News, News and Politics on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As posted on BrianKaneOnline, the theatrical performance artists Blue Man Group are being sued by a man who attended a show in Chicago and was the subject chosen for the “Esophagus Cam” stunt. He claims he was traumatized to the point of nightmares, and actually required dental work as a result of having the camera, “covered [...]
Posted in Computers, Entertainment, Humor, Internet, Photography on January 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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