I'm a big "Mythbusters" fan and often watch an episode (I've got my DVR set to record them) when I've got 45 minutes to kill. So, I'm watching an episode called "Confederate Rocket" and they're trying to recreate a rumored Civil War-era rocket that reportedly flew about 100 miles. At various stages in their mythbusting, […]
It's been four years. I'm still writing. You're still reading. Keep up the good work.
But it sure is funny. Have you ever had one of those off-the-wall experiences when you thought, "no one will ever believe this just happened?" Well, Monday was my day in bizarre-o-world. At 5:30 on Monday afternoon, I stepped into an elevator in a friend's condominium, and the phone started to ring. Not my cell […]
I posted earlier this week about a couple of my current pet peeves -- and I knew at the time I was forgetting one. Here it is: The sideline reporter that the Chargers radio broadcaster employs -- a woman whose name I don't know -- last weekend went on the air and told the guys […]
The question is here. The truth is I've never found New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd particularly amusing, and her whining about men is particularly lame. Maureen Dowd's penchant for provocative overstatement has found its most recent outlet in a much talked about excerpt of her new book, Are Men Necessary?, in the New York […]
There's a public service announcement on the the radio informing people that they can vote early at the "register of voters office." I'm not hearing him wrong, he says "register" five times. I'm also sick and tired of the radio commercial featuring a woman who made a great "investment" for her family over the weekend […]
Umm, if you haven't set your clocks back one hour, you might want to do that now.
I just got finished watching "Fox News Sunday" after spending the better part of the day collecting surplus furniture from the Hoy family homestead -- the parental units are downsizing now that they don't have slaves children to do all of the house and yard work (this has been a snark test). Anyway, getting back […]
The last Titan IV was launched yesterday from Vandenberg Air Force Base. I covered Vandenberg as a reporter for the Lompoc Record for two years and was one of the first civilians to get to tour a Titan IV rocket as it was readied on the launch pad. The writer of the story I linked […]
As a relatively new homeowner who actually gets money back from the government now that Hoystory World Headquarters isn't a rental, you can take my mortgage interest deduction when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. Just as the nation's housing boom appears to be slowing, debate is starting among policymakers about reining in […]