In our never ending mission to educate our kids about all things geek, tonight we enjoyed a Star Trek marathon (of sorts). My eldest (a faithful Dr Who fan) has steadfastly refused to get sucked into the Star Trek universe - until tonight! My secret weapon was of course, Trouble with Tribbles wh...
OK, so I'm not a sports fan, but I admit that I did try to watch the superbowl since its supposedly the American thing to do. Since I don't pay for cable TV at $100 a month, I don't get any of those cable channels showing the game, but thought I'd be able to get it on broadcast NBC but no. Appar...
Today's APOD (Astronomy picture of the day) is of Vesta, a rocky asteroid named after the Roman goddess of home and hearth. Vesta is the second most massive asteroid in our solar system, but the first to be visited by the Dawn spacecraft which finally arrived there in July after launch in 2...
One of my daughters friends has been getting into anime and manga of late, so I asked her to write down some of the titles shes been reading / watching so I could check into them. As often happens this has caused a bit of a problem because after a quick investigation it appears none of them are app...
This year (lucky) folks in the US get to watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special on Christmas Day just like the Brits. I took advantage of my virtual proximity to Cardiff to watch it on the BBC iPlayer with the family several hours before it airs on BBC America (a station I don't get). Michae...
Perhaps one of my favorite television shows when I was a bit younger, The Wonder Years was simply brilliant. It captured the essence of growing up in an American suburb in the late 60s to early '70s and presented it in a beautiful and nostalgic way with off-screen narration provided by a grown up...
When I canceled cable TV earlier this year everyone told me that the kids would stage a revolt. Happily, that didn't happen, and in fact the opposite did. The house is generally quieter and calmer without the background din from a TV set left on at all hours even when there was no-one in the roo...
When you run an organization that is supposed to be impartial, and in fact by law HAS TO BE impartial (because it takes public money) you cannot allow employees to act (even on their own time) in a way that undermines that perception of impartiality. As Brian Stelter put it,
Like many other...
I don't comment on FOXNews very often, but this one has been "awaiting moderation" for most of the day already and it looks like "comments are closed" on it now - so I might as well post it here for the benefit of those few who may stumble upon it. The topic of conversation at lunch today revolved...
I haven't been writing all that much of late, partially because of RL (real life) responsibilities, but also because I've been spending a lot of free time watching old Doctor Who episodes. My mom was the real Doctor Who fan and has most of the episodes that aired on PBS here in the states on a zill...
I've been poking around a bit on Prison Planet lately, thats a website run by Alex Jones, a radio talk show host who has been described as a "paleoconservative" whatever thats supposed to mean. Paleo means old, so I assume it's being used to create a distance from the "neocons" (meaning New C...
We didn't ever watch that much TV anyway, so I don't see canceling cable TV as much of a loss, but there is definitely a feeling of isolation without any TV access and if an emergency were to occur it would be nice to be able to tune in. Well, TV is still being broadcast over the air though it re...
We recently decided to cancel our cable TV service. At $75/mo for what they consider BASIC service, it just wasn't a good value. We still have internet service through the cable company, and that product has been very good. After waiting for an hour on the phone to complete the cancellation, th...
The SCI FI channel is trying to force the government to release details about a reported UFO landing near the town in Western Pennsylvania where I was born. The event made local headlines just about 9 months before I was born. I always wondered why I didn't look much like my parents. Read on for l...
I have always been a big Star Trek fan. Besides the obvious allure of fast ships, bare knuckles, lasers and Klingons, I think at the very root of what I dug about the show was Gene Roddenberry's optimistic view of the future. A future where man has done away with hunger and war and racism and eve...
