So, Kim & I watched Watchmen last night. Now I'm not steeped in comics like, say, roninspoon. But I've loved Watchmen since I read it ten years ago and I reread it every year or so. There's a lot there to absorb and so far each re-reading has been rewarding. I was looking forward to the movie.
Having said that, I was sorely disappointed in the way the ( Read more... )

I am an American. I like capitalism. I like being offered my foods with no salt, extra salt, ranch flavor, barbecue flavor, nacho cheese flavor, jalapeno flavor, you name it, I'll try it. I like choice and variety.
However, I am also a man. By default I tend to prefer the regular size, the original flavor, the traditional or unscented aroma. ( Read more... )

Why is it always called "single-payer" healthcare? In every case I know of, the "single payer" is the government -- so why not just call it "government-funded healthcare"?

If you haven't seen the movie yet, go see it so this won't spoil you (and will be funnier). Then experience the Awesome.

Things found while picking up the yard yesterday & today:

• Many, many beer and soda cans -- including one beer can old enough to be pull-tab instead of pop-top
• Many, many beer and soda bottles, both plastic and glass (the latter often represented only by fragments and shards), including a depressing number of Bud Light bottles and Michelob cans
• ( Read more... )

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I'm proud to say I know this guy.

Maybe it loses (or gains) something in translation, but if your business is body bags and memorial urns, maybe "todiefor.biz" isn't the domain name to register for your website.

Sometimes I look at the advances in information technology since I started working with computers and it blows my mind what we have today that nobody even conceived of in the early 1990s. (Except of course for a few visionaries, like Vannevar Bush who pretty much originated the idea of hypertext, predicted digital photography, and defined many of ( Read more... )

Oh my God, who writes things like this?

Some of you remember the old Virginia Renaissance Faire site, the one owned by REC. Just recently I've run across some photos of the old site taken recently.
It still mostly stands, although nature is steadily reclaiming it.
Sometime in 2007? (with commentary)
May 2007
March 2009
May 2009
For those of you who didn't know, some pharmaceutical ( Read more... )