Monday, December 17, 2007Star Trek provides a way to end all conflict everywhereI was watching the TOS (The Original Series for you great unwashed) episode “A Taste of Armageddon.” The Enterprise goes to Eminiar-7 where for 500 years they have been waging a war using computers with a neighboring planet called Venticar. One planet launches an attack and casualties are calculated... Sign in to see full entry.ATTENTION PET OWNERS!!!Go order a Michael Vick Dog Toy before the company gets sued!!! Got a cat? No worries! Tie it to the scratching post. LOL!!! Sign in to see full entry.Putting a friendship to the testIf you want to know how close you are to someone, take a drive across the country with them. One of three things will happen. You'll just carry on like you always do and it'll be like you never left town. You'll start out okay, then drive each other nuts and things will be fine when you get back. Or... Sign in to see full entry.I think this is growth. At least I hope it is.I was at the grocery store this evening and I bought a copy of Discover Magazine's "The History of Space Travel" which I was very glad to see still available. So I'm at checkout and the guy who was bagging my items looked at it and asked me if I really liked space travel. I said yes, without... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, December 16, 2007Below FreezingIt is officially 30.2° here in Austin. That is the first I've seen it go below freezing for this part of Texas. Hopefully the sky is still relatively clear. I don't mind cold. Cold and wet at these temps starts to spell trouble out on the road. I was cooped up two days in a hotel last year just so I... Sign in to see full entry.Showdown at Area 51: A ReviewThis stars Jason London and Gigi Edgley (FarScape). Two extraterrestrials square off on Earth. One has come to save it. The other to ensure it's destruction. It takes the sketchy details of the 1947 crash and stretches them. On the whole I thought it was weak but SOP for the SciFi channel. The plot... Sign in to see full entry.Hematite: Wedding Bands for Under $5Because nothing says "I Love You" like paying a couple bucks for the rings and investing the rest in a no-load mutual fund. Buy Hematite and Invest the Difference Sign in to see full entry.Help! Evil!Alvin and the Chipmunks is playing on the TV in the other room. I cannot write with that shrillness in my ears. So I am playing "The Roundabout" off the Enigma 3 album as an antidote. Ha Yey! Ha Yey! Ha Yey! Ha Ya!... Sign in to see full entry.The realm of possibilityOver the years I have kicked around a couple of ideas for novels. One of them I've even picked out songs for the soundtrack for when it gets filmed. The fact that it still needs to be written... When I write I have a tendency to over-analyze my work while I am doing it. It's kind of an impediment, I... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, December 15, 2007Choices and consequencesIt was 1985 in late June and we had just landed at Ben-Gurion airport in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Now everybody who has flown knows that you have to stay seated with your seatbelt on until the "fasten seatbelt" light goes off after the plane has stopped moving. So we're sitting there and the plane is... Sign in to see full entry. |
