So this guy wails on another guy in his RPG group after they get into an argument over a girl. With a hammer. Sure, it’s the classic story of two guys arguing over a girl, but the D&D angle is seriously played up in the story, which reflects badly on all of us gamers. Especially […]

Over the weekend, a bunch of Obama surrogates (including Secretary Sebelius) started dropping suggestions that the Public Option part of the health care reform package might be expendable in the name of compromise. Boo Hiss. This discussion should have started with single-payer as the opening position, leading to compromise from there. What’s the point of […]

Crap. Les Paul died. All the stories today are going to list the credits: electric guitars, multi-track recording, changed popular music, etc. It’s all true. I just watched the documentary PBS did about him a couple of years ago, “Chasing Sound”, over the weekend, and was amazed. Seeing how Les played – in his nineties! […]

I freely admit it; I’m a comic book geek. I’ve got boxes of them. Specially procured comic-sized boxes filled with bagged and boarded four-color wonder. I especially love the older, oddball stuff they just don’t write any more. Vintage Stan & Jack; Mantlo; Gerber. Not that there’s anything wrong with today’s more grim-n-gritty, “realistic” take […]

while supervising a Cub Scout hike this weekend.

For what was, overall, a lazy, rainy weekend, I’m pretty proud of the things I managed to accomplish. It may not seem like a lot of stuff, but a lot of it is stuff that needed doing that hadn’t yet been done. -♦- I finished doing my taxes. I put them off quite a while […]

You know what would be a useful special feature for future DVD/Blu-Ray discs of a certain genre? A subtitle track with a running body count. Because as I watched Punisher: War Zone last night, I lost track around the chair-leg to the face during the mob dinner party opening scene. I’d estimate it was around […]

I got a new toy in the mail today. In fact, I’m typing up this post on it now, and mostly managing to be reasonably accurate on it’s tiny little keyboard (except for when I need an apostrophe, since it’s been moved down by the space bar to save space). I give you… The Dell […]

As alluded to in an earlier post, we made a family trip over to the VA comicon this weekend. It was Colleen’s first trip, and I guess she enjoyed herself. She at least satisfied her curiousity; you’d have to ask her for her impressions. It’s always fun pointing the kids at the fifty-cent boxes with […]

Earlier this morning, we wrapped up the 2009 Cub Scout pinewood derby. This was Andrew’s first year, and he was terribly excited. Last night, we did the track set-up and unofficial weigh-in/shakedown, which really caught his attention. While he was interested in building the car previously, he had little idea of what to expect. After […]