So...when the Snap-on sales truck shows up at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the engineers all go a little ice-cream truck crazy. I just saw a "1 800 AUTOPSY...for all your autopsy needs - http://www.1800autopsy.com/" sales rep van driving around Pasadena to I presume local hospitals... #

Is it just me or does the 3d printable food in development sound a lot like Steve Martin's 70s bit on McDonalds: here is your hamburger, here is your change....

Musing for the day: "Why are Animal Crackers Awesome ( Read more... )

I love Star Wars (classic) and I love the JJ Abrams reboot of Star Trek (watched the original as re-runs on a black-and-white TV), and I love Disney (classic: anything with Dean Jones or Haley Mills), so what's not to love about Star Wars + JJ Abrams + Disney? Well, apparently a lot. I just can't get excited by the prospect of new story lines - ( Read more... )

[Thanks to a friend's referral and Netflix] The plot line is a little predictable and Martin Freeman's Watson needs to be a bit more assertive, but I could listen to Benedict Cumberbatch's Alan Rickman-esque voice all day...

Is it just me or do the Kung Fu Panda 2 premiere pictures of Brad Pitt look a little too your-weird-but-nice-Uncle-Frank-who-is-still-working-on-his-English-Literature-Dissertation-ish...

Then ( Read more... )

First there was the circus about the birth record and now academic records. Really?!

Why don't you show us your real hair?

(and come clean with whatever political interest is using you as a front man for distraction)

I may retract that House has jumped the shark given recent developments (granted I'm a week behind as I don't own a TV so it could still revert to lame), but here is to more snarky-sharpest-addict-in-the-room House....

A friend's family relocation dilemma had me thinking about the American Dream and my own pursuit of it. In my micro-demographic, you got married, went to graduate school (the order of the first two may be reversed), you slummed in a rental through school and a post doc or two, bought a house, had 2.5 children, acquired pets, traded up houses, and ( Read more... )