24 Feb
After a long Beta test (9 months, I believe) our friends Chris and Kerilyn have released from manufacturing a new product of their loins named Lilly. Only one Lilly will be produced and, upon release, she had the following dimensions: 7 lbs., 14 oz. and is 21 inches long. Despite a strong resemblance to her [...]
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21 Feb
Via CNN… Hunter S. Thompson dead at 67 “On February 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado,” said a statement issued by Thompson’s son, Juan Thompson, to the Aspen Daily News as reported by the Denver Post. “The family will [...]
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17 Feb
Based on nothing more than a first-hand, single source rumor (hey, it’s good enough for war), this site says that the new Xbox will be fun to look at as well as play. It’s going to be called 360 degrees which is, by coincidence, the same temperature that your recalled Xbox power cord will reach [...]
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16 Feb
As you may know “Star Trek: Enterprise” has been canceled. Despite some initial promise, the second season started to blow with some mindless time travel motif and that morphed into some serious sucktatude in the third season with a kind of post-9/11 “get tough with the aliens who attacked us” plot line. My heart went [...]
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15 Feb
This one time… at band camp (or was it English class?) I used the tired old phrase “Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet” as an example of the commercial and nostalgic view of things “American.” This 18-something in the class had NO idea what I was talking about. Folks, I am hideously out-of-touch with the [...]
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14 Feb
Despite my intentions to the contrary, I continue to find it amusing to glance over the subject lines of the mail in my spam folder. The one that caught my eye said “Want a bigger TV? Win a 42-inch Samsung.” So, in anticipation of my big win, I went ahead and threw out that crusty [...]
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09 Feb
While drinking my morning brew (coffee, if you were wondering), I stumbled onto an article over at Wired about the cult of Star Wars and what people are going to do after Episode III: Revenge of the Merchandise comes out in May. In particular, what on earth are the fan site kids going to do? [...]
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