Nope. I've never been stressed out by one. Guess I'm lucky. I see deadlines as a challenge to be met. I suppose a lot of it depends on work environment, though. I can definitely see how some people stress over it. The trick is, if you miss it, have a good reason why you missed it. Also, if you know you will miss it,…

They settled in Europe, too. So really, they just don't like the terms of the Justice Department settlement...

Just be honest. Also, don't say you're an "expert" in something...unless you can back it up. And I mean really back it up. Expert means you wrote the RFC or implemented the protocol in an operating system. Hopefully the interviewer will limit his or her questions to your actual experience. I hate it when interviewers…

It would be annoying if he was withholding something important (like, uh, a cancer cure or something). Withholding information about a Trek flick hardly rates a rant. Have some fun with it. JJ is.

There was a blond in the Gary Mitchell episode. She also got god like powers, if memory serves. Similar haircut, too. I think the Japanese bonus shot is definitely mis-direction. That JJ Abrams is one sneaky bastard. Good trailer. I think the Gary Mitchell story is perfect for a movie and could provide the same kind…

They have teams playing at home at 1pm this week. That game gets shown without competition. If you are a cheap NFL fan (not willing to spring for DirectTV or Redzone), it's actually better for you to live in a town with no team as you generally get all three games every week.

If it has already gone to collection, just paying is a bad idea especially if you really don't owe it. The only way you should ever agree to pay it is if you get the collection agency to remove it altogether from your credit report. Paying it is akin to admitting you owed it. It's already a blemish on your credit…

Definitely Sci-Fi (or I hope it is anyway). PoI is one of the better things on TV right now, but the competition isn't very good. It's definitely the best procedural in TV right now.

This one is easy. Each week either Fox or CBS get to be the double-header. This week it's Fox.

Stephen King is really good at the slow creep. Which is why his stuff doesn't translate very well to the screen. I remember The Stand actually giving me nightmares. Bag of Bones looked silly on TV but was another one that worked very well on the page. Duma Key is another very creepy novel.

I grew up a Cowboys fan and will probably die one. I no longer live in Dallas, but there is just something about rooting for the team you grew up loving that no adopted home team can replicate. The problem for the Cowboys is fewer people have been growing up loving them. That's happens when you got almost two decades…

Tea has it, although not nearly at the levels of coffee. But, I too was not coffee drinker until recently. I despised the stuff. But a trip to Mexico where coffee was one of the "safe" drinks got me change my tune. It's definitely an acquired taste.

That Dallas hit (#2)...I was there. Everyone in the stands thought the flag was on Seattle. Seeing the replay again, flagging Dallas looks even more absurd.

Sometimes people just disagree because it's not their idea, or they woke up cranky, or whatever. A "good idea" isn't necessarily a slam dunk for getting someone to agree to it.

Generally for meat, 1 year in the freezer. And if I remember properly, it's more about taste at that point than safety. I anything I find in the back of the freezer if it's a year or more old just as a general rule (I mean, if it's been in there that long and not eaten, probably no one wanted it anyway).

I tend to think the "Tom is a sleeper agent" stuff is going to turn out to be misdirection on the writer's part. If Tom had been converted, why dump him in Michigan instead of near his home turf? That seems a strange place to put him down if he was a sleeper (I mean seems a bad place anyway but really bad if you want…

The most serious flaw in the episode to me. Everything else can be written off as effects of sleep deprivation, hunger, illness and the general lack of sound judgement that can come from all of those things. But Tom not even connecting the dots back to his conversation with the Alien Leader about putting all the…

Seriously? Wow. If that's true, your generation sucks. You want to get paid? Prove yourself.

No one else emails voicemails? My rinky dink cable company does that. Pretty sure Vonage and Google Voice do it too. I don't think this is a feature unique to Magic Jack....

Problem is, in the novel at least, most of the characters are NOT teenagers.