My favorite mode of transportation has been around for quite a while. Walking.

It's something I do as much as possible. It's good exercise and completely free. I experience so much more around me by walking as opposed to being locked into the confines of an automobile. The journey becomes far more important than the destination.

I've long asserted ( Read more... )

I overhead some people on the bus the other day talking about this pizza place that was buying souls as part of some promotional campaign. So of course, I had to get on Google to find out exactly what they were talking about.

So yes, apparently a local pizza place is actually offering free slices of pizza in exchange for your soul. According to many ( Read more... )

Instead, I'd rather just comment on the two subjects I hated most in school that I still think were totally worthless.

Geometry:
This was probably my most hated class. I actually enjoyed Algebra. I didn't mind finding 'x,' though I would have liked it if someone would have explained why 'x' always seemed to go missing. We never had any problems with ( Read more... )

I'm not going to comment specifically on the presidential debate. I doubt I could add much that wasn't said already.  However while watching, I started thinking that we should have more of these. Of course the debates aren't perfect, but at least it gives the candidates a chance to address each other and the American people.

Right now, it seems one ( Read more... )

In this country, sadly it's more of a privilege than a right. I support universal health care but I believe there need to be conditions.

First off, I think anyone participating in this program needs to not smoke or, at the very least, enroll in a treatment program. Sorry, but it says these things will kill you right one the box! If you want to live ( Read more... )

There's that old joke about the guy who's in an alley looking for his for something.  I can't remember exactly what he's looking for, but it's a generic joke so it really doesn't matter ( Read more... )

Bill Melendez, who provided the voice for Snoopy and was the only animator  that Charles Schultz let work with his Peanuts characters, died today at age 91.

More here on this link.

I've never heard of Bill Melendez before, but he got to work with a wide variety of well known characters in addition to Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang.  I personally ( Read more... )

Last night I went to the Aimee Mann concert. Well, actually it turns out Aimee Mann was just the opening act but she got to play for quite a while so I was happy.

Apparently Squeeze was the main band. I don't dislike Squeeze but I just don't get how anyone could really get in to them. Most of their songs, which sound the same anyway, are fairly ( Read more... )

The Democratic Convention's over, so now we've got to wade through the Republican version followed by a continuous wave of negative political ads from both sides.

I caught the tail end of the Dem's convention and despite my generally favorable opinion of Obama, I was just shaking my head at the pageantry. The fact that it was going on as the same ( Read more... )

This Saturday was the 6th annual Slay-a-thon, a 13 hour marathon of Buffy and Angel episodes along with  games and contest and prizes. All good geeky fun. I've look forward to this event every year. It's always great to find people that didn't look at me like I was crazy for watching a show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Then again, anyone that ( Read more... )