Semi-Autonomous Cars… What Would I Do?

Tesla Model S I’ve been thinking about a new car because my current auto will be…

Swimming with Manta Rays

I can’t believe I’ve never posted about this before. I have been, for years, fascinated by…

I’m All Screwed Up

My brain is amazing. Or it was when I was younger. I can remember things in…

Life on Io?

Io I was watching Star Trek: Picard season two on Paramount+ and (slight spoiler) someone was said…

Goodbye Masks (Mostly)

It’s been a little more than a month now since the governor of Washington State lifted…

Movie Review: Belfast

When the list of Best Picture nominees comes out for the Academy Awards, I like to…

TV-MA on Disney+

A week ago (about) my smart TV said the Disney+ app (I guess that’s the right…

Television Review: Hawkeye

I know Hawkeye first streamed on Disney+ a while back (around Christmastime I think). I didn’t…

Book Review: The First Conspiracy

I enjoy history, especially U.S. history. And George Washington is my favorite Founding Father. So when…

Life, the Universe, and Everything

The other day (like a month ago) I was thinking about life. Not how life as…

Happy Light

Not only am I bipolar, but I also suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD); a rather…

RadCon 8B

Starting tomorrow and through Sunday, I will be at RadCon 8B in Tri-Cities, Washington. It will…

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

DVD.com deigned to send me Ghostbusters: Afterlife as soon as they released it. I guess I’m…

I Remember Email

Back in 1994, someone introduced me to email on the computers at the University of Washington…

Time Zones

When I was in the military, we were very concerned with time zones because our intelligence…

Gas Prices

During the recent holiday season, I watched Die Hard, as I usually do.  There’s on scene…

TikTok… Sort Of

Due to the popularity (I suppose) of TikTok, Facebook/Instagram has started doing “Reels” which are basically…

Things I Invented

Happy 2022!  I hope. Now on with the blog. Robert Heinlein is often credited with inventing…

Movie Ratings

The other day I watched a movie (Paint Your Wagon) that was rated “GP.” No, that’s…

I Tried Cutting the Cable

I have been using Dish for my television programming for years. Don’t ask me how many.…

8 1/2

I recently watched the movie 8 1/2. It was made in 1963 in Italy. It was…

Twitter Gets Results

When I went to get my booster shot for COVID, I made an appointment through my…

Guilty Pleasures

A while back I told a friend via text that I had watched Smokey and the…

The Huskies’ Season is Over

The University of Washington Huskies’ football season is over. Thankfully.  In 2008, the Huskies went 0-12,…

Paper Straws are Improving… in Some Cases

Paper Straw A while back I wrote about how much I hate paper straws. That was…