I sympathize. The Ambien was not the only issue. In fact, it only showed me of how I let one of my strongest policies lax.

When I was in primary school, I had the "pleasure" of downing numerous cartons of expired milk. There was no schoolkid dare or similar, but just a few occasions of drinking a couple cartons and thinking that it did not taste right. Hey, I was young. And stupid. Now in my adulthood I am very lactose-intolerant, so…

We have memory-altering medications already. Frakking Ambien. Zolpidem (the generic term for Ambien) has a side effect experienced by the majority of users called anterograde amnesia. Basically your brain stops forming short term memories when it is metabolizing in your body. And let me tell you, that stuff can…

It's a Fluke, which means it costs at least 20 times the closest competitor with limited functions. But it will last damn near forever. I have had my eyes on a Fluke oscilloscope for years. I even saved up to get one. But I decided to spend the down payment for my Fluke and bought a new car in full with cash. …

I believe we have a tie!

Does anyone know if this would help from needing to be on another floor when my wife has Chinese food? Just sayin.

I appreciate your thoughts on my civilian take of our country's incompetent ratings system. We can only hope that the powers-that-be would come to their senses, but corporate corruption has made its way into damn near everything.

I got it! That tends to fit the same time period that my wife swore off Chinese food. I may have noticed an increase of methane about the time she started eating broccoli in heavy rotation.

Ah! I always forget the M1! Fair enough.

Your point is valid for BSG, but SGU was getting very good and Caprica had found its feet when the network decided to cut their losses. And there are others: Dresden Files is one I was very disappointed when I heard they were not renewing it. Shows do have growing pains and it is sometimes good to cut it if it…

Hands down IMHO.

Giggity!

Well since it sounds like a good idea and there is a chance people will like it, you know what that means. It will never happen or SyFy will only give it a single season to cut its teeth and then pull the plug once it gets good.

From what I can make of it is this (and I will state that this an educated guess; I could very well be wrong): the bean-counters at NBCU evaluate the cost and return of a show based on Nielsen demographics. Reality-based and non-scripted shows have far less overhead than a scripted show. Dialog is improvised, there…

Indeed! The NBC/Universal group wanted to cross-promote shows across all their networks. The most recent example is running the pilot of "Alphas" on USA, Bravo (Really?!), and UHD to name a few. A couple of years ago I remember Sci-Fi (before the "siffy" change) running marathons of Law & Order: SVU. Seriously,…

I am all for ending shows before they forget to check out. When the decision to end BSG after 4 seasons came out, I was actually elated. Better to go out on top. What I have a problem with is the crap that they pulled with Eureka. They gave the green light for the sixth season only to renege and say "Our bad." …

Yep, they decided to clear the schedule to make way for more WWE, pseudo-reality ghost hunts, and cooking shows.

Sweet Jeebus! We (all the Acura techs at the dealer) HATED those 5-banger bastards. The G20 5-cylinder was a dead nuts reliable engine. Too bad everything around the motor was less than reliable. We had a used 92 Vigor with a manual transmission that was a trade in. I almost bought it. I was new to the brand and…

Right on. I love the idea of the Defiant: a smaller-sized "escort" vessel that is so over-powered that it will tear itself apart from the inside out.

I needed a good laugh today. That said, what the frak? He does not have to register as a sex offender? Talk about a double standard. I hate hypocrites.