Question 1: How the hell do you not notice until you're off the ground that your landing gear is bent at a 90 degree angle? Aren't you using them for takeoff? And how do they get bent like that ( Read more... )

Apparently today is the day of films that break one of the cardinal rules for successful blockbuster films: anti-heroes as protagonist. Now there are films with "villainous" or "criminal" protagonists, but there are few films that develop a protagonist who is truly an anti-hero.( Read more... )

My day yesterday was good. How good was it, you ask? Read on:( Read more... )

How do you make a mix tape? I can never seem to get them perfectly right. I have sort of a formula, but it's a bit fuzzy. So what is your strategy? Do you use a theme?( Read more... )

Random Quandry #1 ( Read more... )

I had an interesting conversation with Nate last night, as is often the case whenever we do manage to talk. However, I dominated the conversation. So I'm hoping that by introducing this conversation into a forum that both welcomes feedback and forces me to eventually shut up, an actual dialog could emerge. That doesn't mean that only Nate's ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking about the idea of hatred, and it seems like a surprisingly elusive concept. Clearly, some of my understanding stems from the Judeo-Christian tradition (Rule #2: Love your neighbor as yourself) then tempered much more by liberal tolerance than by high-religious righteousness. I'm not saying I have the best perspective, but I' ( Read more... )

I've started getting Dictionary.com's word of the day again. It used to be a good vocabulary builder. Since I've started receiving it recently, though, it's been total crap. Example: today's word is malfeasance. Others include mien and potable. I may have to cancel if they don't get their act together and give me some words I don't know. I ( Read more... )

So I was thinking about my blog. It seems like I spend a lot of time posting about music and movies. I like music and movies, but is that all I think about? Of course not, but I seem to have painted my blog into that corner. In an effort to resist that, and since this is what I was thinking about this afternoon while I mowed, here is a post ( Read more... )

Meghan is awesome, and she scanned in a few old photos I had. I'll probably post them as I see some reason to. Here's the first one, a classic photo from Spring 1999 where Kyle, Dave, and Lana pretend to be swimming:( Read more... )