Centaurs circling my mind
In among the mental churn is something Kevin Kelly wrote about in one of his books a few years ago. He wrote about Garry Kasparov and the Deep Blue computer battling it out for supremacy…
When did cars get so complicated?
It used to be that you got in your car, started it up by turning a key in the ignition, put it in gear, and off you went. Not any more. We got a call…
Out of the mouths of babes ….
When I walk the dogs in the morning, the local children are on their way to the nearby school. They usually stop to pet the dogs and chat before continuing on their way. One kid,…
Dean Koontz’s Black River – Paradise or Devil’s bargain?
Warning: Spoilers ahead! The wife and I watched Dean Koontz’s Black River this evening. It stars Jay Mohr as Bo Aikens, a young writer trying to escape the phoniness of Los Angeles and the film…
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
So, after the wife’s binge-watching the Omen movies all weekend, we went out to see something more suited to my tastes – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. This is the second of the reboot movies done by…
Omen-ous movies
There is a new Omen movie out in theatres, so all the previous ones have been released on streaming services. My wife, being a horror writer, had to binge them all. I’ve never seen the…
The solar eclipse … denied!
Today was the solar eclipse, with totality (or near totality) across a large swath of the United States. I’ve been looking forward to it for several months now. This may be my last chance to…
Oooops!
Well, this is embarrassing. I flubbed things up and didn’t actually send out yesterday’s email. I ended up sending it out just a few minutes before today’s missive. I apparently had it all set to…
Let’s talk gin
I don’t drink alcohol and the wife only occasionally imbibes. For some time now she’s been looking for a place that will make a sloe gin fizz for her. It seems this was a favorite…
Mental churn
I have trouble focusing. Part of the problem is I get interrupted a lot while trying to work on things. Either the dogs are demanding attention or want to be on the other side of…