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Wish List: Erasure
They've released the track list for the anniversary edition of Erasure's "The Innocents" album. Now I'm interested in buying it for the bonus tracks (including "The Good The Bad and the Ugly [The Dangerous Remix]")!! -
Star Wars design flaws
SF doesn't always have to make sense, but these two entries are hilarious!! For space sake, he limited ST to just the movies. But he still missed my personal peeve: The bridge is in a tactically vulnerable position out front and top for no reason.
Death StarAn unshielded exhaust port leading directly to the central reactor? Really? And when you ( Read more... ) -
QOTD
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Constantine Giannaris: The Short Films (1991)
Constantine Giannaris: The Short Films (1991) represent two hours fifteen minutes of my life that I can’t get back for what comes across as a low budget DVD. Giannaris introduces and explains his intent for the three short movies: "Caught Looking," "North of Vortex," and "A Place in the Sun." It would have been a better “extra feature” than part ( Read more... ) -
The Luddites fight back
Woofer: The 1400 Character Anti-Twitter
Tired of paring down to 140 characters? How do you feel about a 1400 character minimum? This Twitter-like site could be for your Dicken's wannabes. Woofertime.com -
Letter to my Senators
Good morning. I know that there are many people opposed to the current effort to reform health care in the US. It is important that health care be passed and live up to the principles that Pres. Obama has laid out. Reform without the public option is no real reform. The public option is important to bring real competition to this industry ( Read more... ) -
Movies
Mom wants to go see Harry Potter, what an adventure this turns out to be. The AMC / Star theatres aren't listed anymore, they're two of the closest that I know outside of a suburban downtown (Birmingham) location. So I went to Yahoo Movies and located it at two AMC's and Birmingham Palladium. Then there's pricing!! Warning, I'm cheap and one of ( Read more... ) -
Randomocity
Today was the BWMT “Games Day” picnic at Tom’s house. Even though it was hot probably about a dozen people showed up. Plenty of shade and the occasional breeze in the backyard made for a good place to hang out and catch up with friends and acquaintances. The only game that was played was a round of croquet, otherwise it was BWMT-Detroit doing ( Read more... ) -
Spent time
I saw parts of three interesting programs on the History channel today…instead of doing my school-prep work, bathroom cleaning.
- Tectonic plates, the San Andreas Fault specifically;
- Green energy: Wind turbines, solar panels, “green switches” to thwart the electric vampires, a ice based AC unit in Arizona / New Mexico (it freezes water in the ( Read more... )
