Category Archives: Diversions

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Alpha Centauri will have to wait…

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Steve

…another four years to see the Saints finally win their first Super Bowl. If there were only a Las Vegas there to place a futures bet on 2010 to win a small fortune! Jeremy sent me this cool link showing … Continue reading →

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Star Trek already “answered” this in the Sixties

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Steve

Physicist William Edelstein and his son Arthur recently published a report on how FTL travel via Warp Speed (Star Trek), KK Drive (Alan Dean Foster’s Commonwealth novels) and Stutterwarp (GDW’s 2300 AD game) would kill the starship’s crew immediately. Other … Continue reading →

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Will Ferrel is the Typhoid Mary of talk shows!

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Steve

The ongoing bru ha ha involving Conan and Jay was “resolved” today. My general opinion of it was, “so what.” If I had a choice, I’d rather watch the Daily Show (never in a million years would I have predicted … Continue reading →

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Maybe this singer should get my shoe solution

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Steve

If Little Books (nee Victoria Hesketh) needed to move into a new house (not sure why the English withhold articles with such phrases as going to (the) hospital) all over her shoe collection, then the Container Store should look into … Continue reading →

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May nothing come of this unholy union

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Steve

I was poking around the Web, reading a great article on The Guardian about the photographer Spoon paid for their new album cover only to see this horror. Scratch that. Horror implies I care. Corgan gets well-deserved razzing for the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to Elvis & David Bowie

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Steve

Hail to the King of Rock n’ Roll and the Thin White Duke. Man, if Elvis didn’t die on the can, he would’ve be 75? I always thought he was older but I did the math again based upon knowing … Continue reading →

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RIP Brittany Murphy

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Steve

Yeah, I know she died suddenly last Sunday but it has been a crazy week at work and with the last-minute distribution of goodies. I also pondered whether or not I really wanted to bother because I wasn’t a huge … Continue reading →

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RIP Dan O’Bannon

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Steve

The screenwriter who wrote the first Alien movie died this week after a 30-year battle with Crohn’s disease (after looking it up on the NIH’s site, he really suffered). Besides creating a very iconic monster through HR Giger and Ridley … Continue reading →

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1989: The Simpsons make their sitcom debut

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Steve

It’s late but last night I was dog tired after the day I had at work and the evening before. I thought about skipping the milestone yet there was some lameass piece in Salon about the anniversary from an alleged … Continue reading →

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Happy 50th Birthday Weird Al Yankovic

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Steve

The clown prince of Pop music celebrates his birthday but sadly no new album until next year as per his site. To satisfy  his legion of fans, there’s just a five-song EP via iTunes and a compilation CD (only the … Continue reading →

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Norm MacDonald

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Steve

Friday night, I kicked off the weekend festivities with a trip to Fry’s to buy an upgrade to my MacBook (haven’t installed it yet) and see this talented comedian. Most people know Norm from his stint on SNL, the movie … Continue reading →

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Playboy‘s Hail Mary pass

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Steve

The new publisher of Playboy, Scott Flanders (upcoming coincidence?), may have convinced Hef that the aging magazine can’t compete with all the free material on the Internet by having Marge Simpson on the cover. I love cartoons, but I don’t … Continue reading →

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If only Triumph the Insult Dog would comment

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Steve

These baby outfits are only funny due to Lucas making three awful movies, otherwise, they’re a bit sad to see what some fanboys and fangirls will buy to torment their children when they get to high school. I know, pretty … Continue reading →

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Monty Python turned 40

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Steve

The last place on Earth I’d ever think would discuss this was Marketplace on my NPR affiliate, otherwise I wouldn’t have known about the milestone yesterday; the downside of my current Apple gig keeps me too pre-occupied to do any … Continue reading →

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Twlight Zone turns 50

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Steve

I only discovered it this morning while listening to a habitual podcast called On the Media. It was already in syndication when I was a kid and they made a mediocre movie based upon four episodes in the Eighties; at … Continue reading →

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