A Tall Order
My New Year’s resolutions:
Sell my comic book collection.
Eat less and exercise more.
Keep in better touch with friends.
House repairs and remodels, including replacing some appliances and finishing the basement.
Rip all my CDs to the computer.
Read more books and play more video games.
Learn a new skill or technology at work.
Take a trip to a beach with the [...]
Fading Spaces
As I talked about in this post, I recently replaced my older Denon receiver with a new Onkyo TX-SR605 one in my home theater. I also finally moved the A/V components to the stand underneath the television set. No more Tower O’ Components next to the television, which frees up even more space [...]
Blatant Hucksterism In My Edible Prophesy Containers
Happy New Year!
And what do we do with a new year? We make prophecies about it. So let’s go to the Fortune Cookie, shall we? Here’s the one I got yesterday from Pad Thai:
Let’s take this one line at a time:
Cooking is easy.
Debatable. I went through my cooking phase, and yes, [...]
Zeus, Redefined
I’ve closed off the God Poll. I figure everyone who was going to vote has done so by now. The results were spread out pretty evenly. Out of a total of 18 responses, they fell like this:
Which answer below most closely matches your beliefs about the existence of a supreme intelligence?
(4 votes, [...]
Never Did Give Nothin’
During my vacation, I finally got around to watching the SciFi Channel original miniseries Tin Man. The series is billed as a “bold reimagining” of the Wizard of Oz and the credits say it is based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book by L. Frank Baum. I think I was hoping for [...]
Crash Into January
Be careful what you wish for…
I knew that if I complained long enough about having nothing to post about, something would happen. Well, it did. I had a very close encounter with a stopped RTD bus on a slippery road yesterday. The bus wasn’t damaged and luckily it had no passengers; the driver [...]