I mentioned that I saw Knocked Up this past Sunday. This is a bit of dialog: Pete: I wish I could enjoy anything the way my kids enjoy bubbles. Ben Stone: That’s sad. Pete: Their smiling faces point out my inability to enjoy life. Each of my kids at some point has expressed the kind [...]

The wife type person called to express indignation about the Mattel recall, wishing that she had a blog to express said indignation. Being the good husband I am I said I would give some thoughts towards a blog posting. I then ran across this site, via GeekDad SaferToys.org. Rick Klau, its creator had this to [...]

Hi. I’m pinakidion, Scott’s long-lost friend. It’s a Greek word, it means “writing tablet”. Pink is easier to say. I’m secure enough that I can deal with being called Pink. I’ve been absent on my own site, but since I was graciously asked to fill in next week, I figured a preemptive strike was in [...]

Lest you think I’ve been lounging around, here’s what’s been going down.

As you can see by my sidebar I’m reading what has become known as The Art of War by Sun Tzu. From today’s reading this jumped out at me, “In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.” This section focuses largely on the need to make war quickly and to use [...]

Surfing my favorite links site lead to the 50 Greatest Commercials of the ’80s which lead me to a search on a long forgotten favorite tv show which lead to the Max Headroom chronicles: H-H-H-Home Page. Looks like we’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of what I remember as a cutting edge, darkly-funny tv [...]

Right click and save this our latest political show. We talked a bit about political extremism and how much it sucks and I stacked two or three soapboxes up and climbed on them. Link fixed (I hope).

Acorrding to MTV’s movie blog we’ll see a Narnia movie every May starting in ’08 and lasting until they run out of books. Adamson insisted that future “Narnia” films will be both more consistent and more faithfully inclusive to the source than “Harry Potter.” “‘Harry Potter’ is a different [animal],” he said via satellite from [...]

BBC America’s Jekyll came on last night and I enjoyed the crap out of it. James Nesbitt plays Tom Jackman who, we come to find out, has blanks in his memory. Rather than simply being caused by the horror of his realizing that he’s not American, it turns out that he becomes this evil, insanely [...]

For those of you who aren’t checking Technical Stew on a regular basis or any kind of basis, you should. It’s Pat’s and my take on all things tech. We’re also doing a weekly Talkshoe podcast on that topic and you can download it from Technical Stew. And feel free to call in. It’ll be [...]