I get stuck in some sort of time warp occasionally and miss out on movies that everyone else and their dog has seen as a matter of course.  The most glaring example of this is the original Star Wars (1977) movie, which was a huge hit when I was a kid, but which I didn’t see until I [...]

Being a bookish sort, I’ve never had any patience for censors, especially self-appointed ones.  So, while she was never in danger of getting my vote, the recent news that Sarah Palin falls into that ignoble category is one more reason to dislike her and, in my book, one more reason she fails in the basic requirements [...]

I stocked up on water and canned goods.  The projected path is pretty wide.  I’ve been tracking its movements.  Right now, it’s down to 65MPH, which is a good thing, but it’s expected to hit as a category one hurricane on Friday. We made it through Gaston, a few years back.  That one was called [...]

Generally, I prefer my iPod to the radio, inundated as it is with commercials, witless DJs, and crappy music.  I like to listen to NPR’s Morning Edition pretty often on my drive to work.  But I’m fairly inundated with news, so I try not to indulge in it every day.   Music, for me, trumps [...]

A long while back, I set out to do a complete rewrite of Wheat’s BassBook and publish it as a dead trees book.  That project got back burnered pretty quickly.  But, now that I’ve slowing unpacking my backups, I discovered that I’d done a good bit more work on it than I had previously thought. [...]