A friend sent me a link today announcing that Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat will both be leaving “Dr. Who” in 2017. I really fear for the life of the show with Mr. Moffat leaving, but, there is only so […]
Rich-ish
This idea hit me while I was buying a mega zillionaire ticket around lunch time. Got joking around with the young girl behind the counter about how winning would be a bad thing since the State of Illinois would never […]
Authors Need to Write About CRISPR Now!
Works of fiction and facts of history have long been absorbed by both lunatics and cultures attempting to create “the perfect” of a species. It is a topic which seems to drive the most unstable of creatures into positions of […]
The Best Desk I’ll Never Have Again
We get crankier and pickier as we get older. It doesn’t help that I was eating my Halo oranges, taking my vitamins, eating some apples and knocking back orange juice yet still caught the creeping crude family members were passing […]
Does New Yorker Magazine Have Any Reason to Exist?
On November 13, 2016 I caught the beginning of The New Yorker Radio Hour on WBEZ out of Chicago. I have _never_, even on CNN, which is really saying something, heard 3 people more out of touch with American than […]
Do You Remember Email Blackout Periods?
It is rather amazing to be old enough to remember corporate mandated email blackout times. Yes younglings, there was a time when corporations would deliberately shut down their email servers for several hours during the day. Some would take them […]
Getting Rid of Satellite or Cable TV
There has been quite a bit of talk around the country about cutting the ties with satellite and cable TV providers. No wonder. With “average” cable bills around $100/month many people are beginning to ask just how much they are […]