Elon is known to disparage pronouns (and I responded to his tweets with bad poetry), It seems that there is now further evidence that he does not have a good grasp of the English language, and has no idea what “neutral” might mean.

In the spirit of mild annoyance, I gave my Twitter account a “self-verification” blue…

I will not shed a teensy tear
should Sam Alito die of fear.
In Hell his soul will surely sear
and while his ruling was sincere
‘twas evil, wrong, and oh, so clear
his hate for justice makes him dear
to nuts and kooks who hate things queer.

I raise a toast to rouse a cheer
to rise up through the atmosphere
from those who wish…

It was, after all, intended to be totally madcap with plot threads flying all over, until somehow the Doctor (with help of Companions past and present, and indeed, previous incarnations of the Doctor) manages to save the day. While there was a lot packed in there, and odds and ends left loose, the principal bits got…

No fair well, at least for me. In the mid 1980's I was managing that 16-20 mph on relatively flat rides (except when i would join up with the “Tour de Gimbels” group ride going up Central Avenue in Yonkers, and at least before the hills heading up Route 22, I’d be able to ride with the group at about 25 mph (and yes,…

Perhaps someone can get GRRM to commit to a 4 year plan to finish up the Song of Ice and Fire series (not just Winds of Winter, but also A Dream of Spring) - and if he is not stopping there, will it end up being like the interminable Dune novels? (I stopped after Chapterhouse: Dune, but by then I felt like I was a ghol…

Drat, with the news of Ford dropping the Transit Connect, I knew there was at least a near-equivalent in the RAM Pro Master, though that didn’t have the options I needed for versatility - ranging from transporting a group of people to Albany to lobby the legislature, to loading two recumbent trikes to travel to the…

GRRM has a habit of tapping into English history for his Ice and Fire stories - GOT (and the subsequent novels, including those currently still being written) are loosely based on the Wars of the Roses.
This current prequel is loosely based on an earlier period called The Anarchy, in which the King named his daughter…

While it is not relevant in today’s environment, what with GPS navigation systems in the dash and on the phone, when I was commuting to law school from Staten Island to Queens in the mid-1970's, my quality of life was vastly improved when I got and installed a CB radio.

Just being able to get information about traffic…

Back in 2015, I bought a 2015 Transit Connect - it was exactly what I needed to transport a couple of recumbent trikes to bike trails, and still fit in my apartment building’s garage space (its “footprint” was almost exactly the same as the 2013 Altima it replaced - an ICE car that got better gas mileage (42 mpg highwa…

GoT itself (books and original series) are loosely based on British history - the Wars of the Roses.

The current prequel series goes back to earlier events in the same British Isles history, to bring us what looks to shape up as Queen Maude/Empress Matilda (Rhaenyra) up against King Stephen of Blois (Daemon) - the…

I really liked Theodosia. I grant the intended audience was tweens, and there were noticeable (to me) anachronisms, but it was still nicely done.

I have not yet upgraded from my current Fitbit Charge 3 because I have been waiting to see what the Google Pixel Watch will be like. I am fine with the Fitbit ecosystem, though I wish I had the Strava integration I used to have.

If the Pixel Watch ultimately turns out to have such poor battery life, I’m going to have…

Or the Harrowing of the Shire - the social commentary aspect alone was a critical part of The Return of The King - at the least, if it was left out of the movie trilogy, proper, it could very well have been made as a standalone supplement and incorporated into a “hyperextended version” together with Tom Bombadil . . . 

My worry is that the future of HBO Max will be as a purveyor of mindless cheap-to-produce “reality” series as the bean-counters wage war on creative work.

From my perspective, whoever is making the decisions over there is not making very good decisions at all. But I’m just a “streaming customer” who has many other channels I can watch if the fare they’re offering doesn’t interest me.

I watched the first two episodes last night, got insomniac after only a couple hours of sleep, got out of bed and watched the rest of the season. The television adaptation (for me) is like a book that I couldn’t put down, and it left me wanting more. And I never did get back to sleep.

Aha - So Obi Wan, Obi Doo, and Obi Tre?

Texas and Florida are already at stage 8 of the 10 stages of genocide. This has gone far beyond merely giving pandering lip service to the cis-het troglodytes of the evangelical Christian Dominionist wing of the GQP.  This is the “first they came for the trans folks” that will go into a future rewrite of the Pastor…

Many people don’t get the nuance. The constitutionally guaranteed “freedom of speech” is a guarantee that as long as an individual does not cross into the area of unprotected speech, they are protected from government (the standards have varied over time, but one person who has explored the limits in the courts is…

Having both a Nespresso machine (the metal pods of which *are* recyclable) and a Keurig, I am familiar with both of these kinds of pods. Sadly, whoever put the video together seems to have thrown in a lot of clips of Nespresso pods, though the wedding wreath does seem to be made of K-Cup pods. The end result is rather…