Great. Do cats next!

He was organizing a state militia?

She is going to be around for a long, long time. I like her a lot.

My fave along this line was the tire joint that was rotating my tires, and reported to me that they needed to be re-balanced. I said thank you but no, so they gave me back my car. On the way home (3 miles on I-94 in St. Paul), I was shocked at how wobbly the car felt. I found out at home that the lug nuts were less…

Are these forgotten because you haven’’t watched them in a while? A good 8-10 (my list is different then everyone else’s) are in steady rotation through the standard cable channels. We’re the Millers, Ride Away Bride, Hancock, San Andreas, Day After Tomorrow, etc. These are part of the list of those movies at which…

This ends up being what I had to do supporting Androids at work, right? We got a work phone, and no idea what the unlock code was, so I’d put in a bad code 10-12 times, and then Bob’s your uncle, it would blow away the current set up and you’re set again in a few minutes.

Of all the great stories that Robert Silverberg has written, I don’t understand why this one was made into a movie. Jeez

I used to be able to drive to a nearby suburb, where in the middle of a maze of McMansions, was a tiny turkey farm, where I could go a day head and pick up a fresh bird. A bird I could turn into gold in the last 36 hours before Thanksgiving. The farm is gone, and the smoker was thrown away about two decades ago. I …

How lovely that the musical taste setters of my youth are still around to put in their two pence on topics of the day. Seeing Eno’s name got me to look up Phil Manzanera and the many and varied members of Roxy Music (but not Ferry) and 801 to see how they’ve spent the recent decades. I still have a lot of Eno and Manza…

Have you been watching the Mr. A and Mr. M docuseries on Epix? The Carpenters were an early sign-on by A&M records, and you get to hear Karen and Richard talk about what it was like working with Alpert, Moss, and the rest of the crew at A&M. I highly recommend it. Carole King might be the next artist they look at in…

My wife and I have noticed the swing up in output in the last couple of seasons. We’ve been chalking it up to an improved writers room. We’ve bet there are more women less of a bunch of guys trying to amuse themselves. I think this was the best episode of the season.

The Young Punk’s Guide to Living in the 21 Century: Look for places that fix them too. If you put your vending machine in a place is not completely in the public eye, you run the risk that the machine will be broken into by a thief or thieves, and you’ll need to get the thing pulled and repaired, at some non-zero…

I can’t believe I scrolled all the way to the bottom to see this.

Canada is just now breaking into their Maple Syrup reserves. Give this up and just go to the store for the maple syrup. By the way, I had a uncle in Nova Scotia who tapped birch trees. The taste of what he boiled out was weird.

The good news is that you are probably pretty lucky. Things may look bleak when you compare yourself to people who were born with the most advantages, but the fact that you are literate enough to read this and materially stable enough to have an electronic device upon which to read it puts you ahead of almost…

I left my job at the big defense contractor, and started a career with a local medical clinic chain. My new boss suggested that I create a Twitter account because they were doing stuff at the corporate level with the Twit. This article now says that they cap unused Twitter accounts at six months. I still get an email…

Really? Have you driven by any houses that do all blue lights? This is the opinion of someone who has had upwards of 2500 bulbs on our house, the fence out to the garage, and every tree in our front yard.  LED bulbs have the worse colors, and no one know why.

Yeah, what the hell is it about them not getting the colors of the bulbs right? All the LED strings have the dumbest colors that just look like crap. It’s like they never looked at anyone’s Christmas light in the last 50 years.

Ah, pet stockings. Our daughter is married with a house and husband of her own, and we’re invited to their house for Christmas this year. As she grew up, all the members of the family (the pets) had their own stockings each year. Cats eventually got a combined stocking. Dogs always had their own - at one time we had…

I just went through a horrendously long job search, and I can say that LinkedIn did not do me damned thing for my job search. To me, someone with a long job history, it’s closer to Classmates then anything else.