So let me get this straight. So a couple of years ago, under pressure from the Bush administration, Alan Greenspan came out in favor of the Bush tax cuts. This was when the Fed was still respected and actually had some power over the economy ( Read more... )

On March 12th, 2005, G watched Star Wars for the first time. We did this in part because he successfully watched The Incredibles, which was another PG film on the flight back from Maui, and because C had analyzed that G does better with group violence (i.e. large groups of people shooting at each other) than one on one violence (i.e. where a major ( Read more... )

One of the more fun things about having G around is being able to pass on things that were an important part of your childhood ( Read more... )

I'm slowly dragging my way through the last season of Enterprise. I am 8 episodes behind and they are starting to hog up room on my Tivo.

I just finished the season opening three-parter involving 'The Augments' staring Brent Spiner.

Ye Gods it was bad. Bad plot, bad acting, stupid decisions by all the characters. Everyone is just mailing in this

One of the hazards of working for the 'Finnish Man' is that every 18 months or so, they throw a new cell phone at me.

"But there's nothing wrong with my old one." I'll say. But no, the MAN insists I take a new one.

This suits C just fine, who gets my old Nokia castoffs.

So my new monstrosity is a Nokia 9500 Communicator. It's substantially ( Read more... )

InstallShield wins today's kewpie doll award ( Read more... )

The difference between television and real life is that relationships between father and sons are better on TV. Last week while watching a Battlestar Galactica episode, there was a quick exchange between father and son. Paraphased ( Read more... )

Since 1993, on one platform or another, I've been using Eudora as my primary mail client. It served me well on the Macintosh, and later on Win32 platforms, happily getting and receiving my mail. After so long I had grown completely welded to the UI to the point where my hands never had to leave the keyboard to do anything ( Read more... )

Number of unwatched episodes of Battlestar Galactica on Tivo: 0

Number of unwatched episodes of Enterprise on Tivo: 5 ( Read more... )

'bout 9 months or so ago, jwz posted that Keanu Reeves had been cast as John Constatine in the upcoming 'Constantine' movie.

I just took a look at the trailer, and egads it's godawful.

The great mystery to me is: how the hell does he continue to get movie roles? He sucks as an actor and I can't watch him in any movie now and not either burst out ( Read more... )