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Time to Prosecute the New York Times as Both a Russian and ISIS Agent

I know, we try not to write anything overtly political on this blog because it is our thoughts about writing and life itself. Sadly this is about writing. It is also about all of those posts both past and scheduled where I warn you about the pitfalls writers face. Somewhere…

Roland HughesMay 28, 2017November 8, 2017

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The 100,000 Mile Thrill is Gone

In its never ending attempt to jamb more technology in a vehicle inflating the price exponentially automakers have shot themselves in the foot then watched the bullet ricochet off the pavement going through both tush cheeks. It’s a rather impressive feat of managerial ineptitude. When tech first started appearing in…

Roland HughesMay 28, 2017November 8, 2017

Experience Technology

Why Don’t I Get Any Writing Done?

Some of you will consider this an extension of my April 16, 2017 post “For the Love of a Keyboard” and to some extent you would be correct, but only a very limited extent. There are two things I hear repeatedly from writers and want to be authors. I don’t…

Roland HughesMay 28, 2017November 8, 2017

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The Scents Which Define Us

I guess one has to be a bit older to have scents define your person or “take you home again.” Presumably you would have to be old enough to have left home in the first place. We have a bit of a timey-whimey thing going on with this post as…

Roland HughesMay 21, 2017November 8, 2017

Experience Technology

All Because of Vermin

It’s amazing the amount of pain we humans go through because of vermin. No, I mean it. Sometimes the vermin is Jamie Dimon, CEO of a financial institution which engaged in mortgage fraud and bribery without a single care about the lives ruined or any resulting suicides. Other times the…

Roland HughesMay 20, 2017November 6, 2017

Experience

[Information Technology] Why Mars Matters

Many people complain about the money spent on space exploration but I for one do not. Yes, I hear the cries about how they would better spend the money here. When you dig into it though you find that they always have short sighted personal interest at the heart of…

Roland HughesMay 20, 2017November 6, 2017

Film Reviews Reviews

Review – Road to Perdition

★★★★☆ Road to Perdition is a really well done movie. How can you really not like a movie with Tom Hanks? Especially when he is playing a dad type role. He really does that well. The entire cast do an incredible job of pulling the viewer into this 1931 gangster…

Roland HughesMay 12, 2017February 9, 2021