This weekend, Meredith, her cousin Kay and I got out on a rare outing to a movie, and saw STAR TREK on the big screen; the kids were ‘I-dunno-about-this’ until they got sucked into the story, and they want MORE.    I thought for a re-boot of the original series, it was actually darn decent.

The problem was that Meredith was flipping out over a ( Read more... )

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…or how to fix photos of pro-dictatorship rallies so that they look like they’re bigger.

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• Plopping three grown animals in your lap for a ‘family picture’ and not expecting trouble…
• Attempting to make a laptop microfilm reader for the Apollo astronauts.
• Sending out GI Joe to hunt down squirrels.
• Arguing over goodies with a marmot.  Any marmot.
• Collecting a vast number of cereal boxes, so just in case you’ve forgotten what a box of ‘the one ( Read more... )

Possibly the most annoying and rude commercial I’ve seen in a while; it doesn’t sink in as to what’s going on until the end.  Aaaaargh.  (NSFW, really mostly crass as heck, and it sure helps if you know the slang reference to the anatomy.)

This is going to be a big pain in the tush to the makers of crapola everywhere:

Starting Jan. 1, the pharmaceutical industry has agreed to a voluntary moratorium on the kind of branded goodies - Viagra pens, Zoloft soap dispensers, Lipitor mugs - that were meant to foster good will and, some would say, encourage doctors to prescribe more of the ( Read more... )