My wife and I fed the Monster of Skywalker Ranch and saw Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. I did have an appropriate Big Dogs T-shirt, “Dog Wars: Revenge of the Sniff,” but we were going to a nice restaurant before the movie.
(no real spoilers here beyond what you’ve seen in marketing)
I pretty much agree [...]
I finished Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James Fallows during the 30 minutes my plane sat on the tarmac in Houston waiting to take off. The book was written in 1996 by the then-newly promoted editor of U.S. News and World Report magazine.
Fallows builds his case by detailing why the [...]
I only wish I was posting about Star Wars: Episode II.
The AFP (French Press Agency, if I remember right) reports (link dead) that “A human embryo has been cloned for the first time in Britain, where such work is strictly regulated, scientists announced.”
“Scientists hope the work will eventually lead to successful treatments for degenerative diseases [...]
I got word today that we have plans to start teaching our internal software in Grand Junction, CO, two days after Memorial Day. This is my last week in Louisiana, perhaps for a long time. I may miss the B-52s, A-10s, and other military aircraft flying their touch-and-gos at nearby Barksdale AFB. I tried to [...]
This morning on ESPN’s show “Cold Pizza”, Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL) was interviewed about a upcoming hearing with four commissioners from the NFL, NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball, and Major League Soccer. They are to come and voice their opinion on Stearns’ newly drafted legislation, H.R. 1862, the Drug Free Sports Act.
On the show, the [...]
It has been two weeks since the new Buffalo Wild Wings in Bossier City opened. Tuesday is always a good BW3 night—35 cents wings (I remember when they were a quarter) and NTN’s Showdown national trivia game.
Showdown has five rounds of varying difficulty in strategies. Some rounds give you more points for quicker answers. One [...]
I first mentioned the Rapiscan virtual strip search machine in December. The Rapiscan site has now removed the search results graphic from its web page: interesting, no? Just in case you missed out, you can catch it in the PDF brochure or in USA Today, where they now report that the system is being used [...]
This truck used to be black. Who’s got a better caption?
Like a Rock, Covered in Dirt
Picture of a personal vehicle at Halliburton’s Bossier City facility.
