Happy anniversary to my wife Apple (and myself)! Today we are celebrating five joyful years of marriage, with many more on their way. Have a great day today, sweetheart…I’ll see you when you get home!

We live in a housing community wherein each unit received its kitchen appliances (fridge, range, dishwasher, microwave) from General Electric at the time of construction. Roughly half of our community residents have had catastrophic problems with their GE refrigerators, including seal leaks, condenser failures, icemaker issues, moisture problems, and soforth. Recently one of [...]

There was an amusing letter to the editor in today’s local paper. Now, I complain about the tourist traffic and overcrowding as much as the next guy, but some people just really refuse to look reality in the eye. Some people, like this particular letter-writer, think that we should not expand our infrastructure [...]

Swedish furniture-maker IKEA made headlines today after taking heat from Norway’s prime minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik. Apparently Mr. Bondevik believes that IKEA is discriminating against women because their furniture assembly instruction manuals only depict men or asexual cartoon figures building their products.

IKEA, which has more than 200 stores in 32 nations, fears it might [...]

GREETINGS and FELICITATIONS. Why did I type that in caps? Well, because for want of actually having a screenshot of that message from “The Squire of Gothos,” I decided to do something to make it stand out as more than a simple regurgitation of that tired old expression. But, moving on.
In the [...]

When my wife and I went to Thailand this past September, we saw a Thai horror movie called Shutter which was, simply put, phenomenal. It had us all scared shitless. When we recently rented the original Japanese version of Ju-On: The Grudge, we were actually pretty underwhelmed in comparison. Shutter wound up [...]

KITT on the shelf, scanning away

Many thanks to Reaper who got me the bloody awesome 1:18 scale diecast KITT replica for my birthday! It just arrived today, so naturally I unpacked it and set it up on my shelf next to my computer, where [...]

Damn, the flu this year really sucks. Usually I can avoid getting it, and I tend of be of a pretty hardy sort, so I don’t worry about getting flu shots. (Plus, the two times in my life I actually got one, I ended up with the flu.) But maybe next year [...]