FlasshePoint

Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber

This Ain’t Disney

If you had told me that I would become totally engrossed in a comic book featuring Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Jack the Giant-Killer, Little Boy Blue, Pinocchio, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, etc., I would have told you that you were smoking something. Nevertheless, it has happened. A few years ago, [...]

War of the Dozes

I kind of lost count of how many times I started to nod off during Mr. & Mrs. Smith, so I’m not really sure what the Nod-O-Meter rating is (something like five, I suspect). It’s not that it was a bad movie, and I certainly didn’t get bored watching Angelina Jolie, but I’ve just [...]

Morpheus is a Fickle Master

Actually had some computer installation successes today. I upgraded my home studio software from Cakewalk Sonar 2XL to Sonar 4 Producer Edition, and it seems to work. Pretty cool. Maybe this will spur me on to finish off those songs I started during the National Solo Album Month thing back in November…
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Marky Mark Trail

I recently took my digital camera with me on my morning constitutional, to take pictures of a prairie dog colony on my route. For some reason, the little varmints were really worked up that morning and were chattering like crazy. They sounded like chirping birds.

When I got home, I discovered that I had [...]

New Obsessions

I have a new addiction. My local newspaper just added Sudoku to it’s puzzle page. I had never run across it before. It’s like a crossword puzzle, but with numbers instead of words. Just the thing for a logical engineering geek like myself. Easy to play but hard (so far) [...]

Nearly Speechless

Just a quick note here… just got back from Batman Begins, and I need to get some sleep. But I just had to get in here and say… Wow. Awesome. The trailers/previews/commercials do not do this movie justice. As Roger Ebert said, they finally got it right. Even though it [...]

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