What's on my mind today?
Are you one of those people who set their clocks ahead so you won’t be late?
It occurs to me that people who set their clocks ahead so they won’t be late are going to be late irregardless. You’re late because you overslept and because you took too long getting ready and because you had [...]
This post is for Steve, but given the sheer fact I am writing it in blog form means that anyone else is welcome to read it as well.
If you’re not Steve, you may not know that Steve and his wife Heather are expecting their first child early next year. Of course, I am super excited [...]
Yesterday, as you no doubt have heard, there was a fire at a LIRR control tower that totally effed up the commutes of hundreds of thousands of people who travel to and from Long Island. Today, the trains are still all kinds of messed up. Sure, accidents can happen, so it’s hard to be angry [...]
It isn’t a rhetorical question. Why doesn’t the Long Island Rail Road have a quiet car? A “quiet car,” if it isn’t immediately obvious, is a car of the train where cell phone calls, loud conversations, and other assorted forms of noisiness are prohibited. It exists for the commuters that want to read, sleep, [...]
Exhibit A:
Notice the pocket on Eli’s left leg.
Exhibit B:
There are two pockets clearly visible, but trust me, there are more.
Exhibit C:
There is not one, but THREE pockets in Eli’s overalls.
And do you know what’s in these pockets?
NOTHING.
You know why there’s nothing in Eli’s pockets?
BECAUSE HE’S A BABY.
What kinds of things do you keep in your [...]
None of us would be happy if we didn’t have remote controls. Even thinking of a time when people had to actually stand up and walk towards their TVs to change the channel or lower the volume is almost painful.
Now we have multiple devices with multiple remote controls; sometimes they can all [...]
Every December, a ton of “Best of the Year” lists pop up everywhere, and they can get old pretty quick, but I’m digging the “Best of the Decade” lists that I’ve been seeing lately. So I figured I’d jump on that particular bandwagon, and so I now present my list of some of [...]
On December 17, 1989, the face of television changed forever, as the first episode of The Simpsons aired. It was a half-hour episode featuring a crudely animated family struggling to make their Christmas memorable. Few people would have imagined then that in two decades time, the show would still be profitable.
I won’t pontificate [...]
So, there is no way for me to write this post and NOT be accused of being a pompous jerk, but whatever, here it goes anyway.
Every now and again, someone will refer to a non Ivy League school as an Ivy League institution. They don’t mean anything malicious about it, they just have their [...]
It’s a question every Star Wars nerd has debated, and I still have some time to worry about it, but this is something I really need to start considering:
How should I expose my kid/kids to Star Wars?
The obvious answer is to start with Episode IV (the original film for any non-geeks). It just makes [...]
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