With all the brouhaha over Disney buying the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas I thought this would be as good a time as any to relate my Star Wars memories. I first saw Star Wars when I was on a short, oh-boy-we’re-skipping-a-few-days-of-school springtime vacation in Berkeley CA with my dad and sibs. One day, …
Category Archive: Thoughts & Musings
Nov
02
Apr
29
An election post filled with digressions
Being a more-or-less committed lefty in a society that seems to be creeping ever towards the right, I’m pretty used to being perpetually disappointed in election aftermaths. (And then if I’m actually happy with the local result I’m usually disappointed by some stupid thing the pol says later on—but that’s a completely different story.) Being …
Jan
19
Imagine Lincoln’s Surprise
The Obama family visits a confident Abe on Tuesday (Gerald Herbert/Reuters) I had a laugh at the photos of Obama when he was speaking at the pre-inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday: it looks more than a tad surprised, unlike just a few days before when he visited with his family. But by Sunday, …
Dec
15
The Boy in the Moon, Part 3
Wow. The final part of the The Boy in the Moon is up, and once again Ian Brown sums it up with grace. This time he touches on the future for his boy, and frankly, maybe our boy too. Get out the Kleenex, but read it. I’ve been wondering about Jon’s adulthood for his entire …
Aug
19
Soap and toothpaste rant
Guess I haven’t had a toothpaste rant for a while now, so it’s time for another one! Am I the only one who gets annoyed that half the time my particular type of toothpaste isn’t stocked in stores? It’s not that I use some weird, off-brand toothpaste or anything; it’s just that most of the …
Jul
31
Cornerstar Gaslactica
So a couple of weeks ago we were decompressing at the cottage, enjoying some DVD sets loaned to us by friends: Reid loaned us the second season of Battlestar Galactica, and Erik loaned us the first and second seasons of Corner Gas (to make sure we’d seen all of them). (Thanks everybody!) I blame a …
May
24
If I had three wishes……..
May 23/07 My first wish I would like to have another Math CD. I like to work on money problums and puzzles. My second wish would be to visit my grandparents more offtin. I like to spend more time wit them because I love them. My third wish would be to paint my room purple. …