...and, well, I'm stoked about this movie. It looks like it could be even better than Ghostbuster: Afterlife. And I loved that movie a lot.Here's the teaser for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire that dropped yesterday:I will definitely be wearing my Ghostbusters uniform to the theater to see this. All the more reason to upgrade my boots for it ...
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
The legend of Popcorn Sutton lives on! Family is (legally) brewing famed 'shiner's likker

Yowza!! And I've thought that many times over the past several years or so, in regard to the memory of Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton. Longtime readers will remember when I was posting about Popcorn with machine gun-regularity. I'd always wanted to meet the man. Unfortunately that never happened. In March of 2009, a few days before he was supposed to...
Friday, November 03, 2023
Tammy: Feelin' Fine

Have had some scary time lately with Tammy, my miniature dachshund. Two weeks ago she hurt her back around her hind quarters area. I took her to the vet and sure enough, she probably injured herself jumping onto and off from the sofa and bed all this time. The vet gave her three medications and I've been sleeping in the living room since then, close to where...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
Play that Mariah Carey song and it'll be THREE kittens...

Yes, at 12:01 this morning a lot of radio stations began their playing two entire months of Christmas music. Something which I have never liked.Good friend of this blog Lee Shelton made this graphic several years ago. He said that it's time to bring it back out and I agree wholeheartedly...Wow. The original pic is from 2004. A few months before...
Monday, October 30, 2023
God, sacrifice, and Yoda

The other week I shared on here that I had put my beloved Yoda puppet signed by "Weird Al" Yankovic up for auction on eBay. It was something I had never, ever thought I would find myself doing. I had outright declared that it would never happen. When I asked Weird Al to sign this, it was always with the intention that it would be just for me, a real...
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Happy 15th Birthday to FALLOUT 3!

"War. War never changes." It was on this day in 2008, exactly fifteen years ago, that the long-awaited Fallout 3 was released. And computerized role-playing gaming was never the same again.This was the first Fallout game that I ever played. I bought it a few months after it was released. At that point in my life I was needing something to...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Too Much Tolerance? Another op-ed piece from my college's newspaper

It's been a truly fascinating journey for me these past few months after finding an online archive of The Pendulum, Elon University's student newspaper. I'm finding articles written by me that I had forgotten about. I can really see the person I was then, and contrast him with the man who I am today. There is a lot of growth there. Some things...
HEIC? What the heck is THAAAAAT???
Had to take some photos with my iPhone and send them to my personal e-mail account. But when I was about to use them I was hit with a shock: the pics were in something called HEIC format.I had no idea whatsoever what that meant. Only that it wasn't readable by my usual image software, much less usable for most critical purposes.So I did some quick research and found that HEIC, or HEIF, stands for High Efficiency Image Container. ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Mythic Games: They'll NEVER deliver this Kickstarter

For a few months now I've debated whether or not to make this post. I gave the company at issue a gracious amount of time to respond to the very MANY people who had taken them at their word and trusted them to produce a great product.However it has now been almost seven months since anything in the way of official word has been published. That should have been...
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Tammy the Pup: Caught in the act

I really should post more pics of Tammy, my miniature dachshund. She's just so cute and comical... and sometimes too smart for her own good. She has also literally saved my life and sanity. I would be a far different person - and maybe not here at all - were it not for Tammy.So last night we were getting ready for our Saturday evening ritual of tuning in...
Friday, October 13, 2023
My Yoda puppet signed by "Weird Al" Yankovic is now listed on eBay

Well, I'm now a liar and worse.A little over ten years since I vowed that I would never, EVER do it, I am indeed selling my much-loved Yoda hand puppet signed by "Weird Al" Yankovic.It's really out of my hands (no pun intended). For reasons which I don't care to disclose publicly, some financial resources have come to be required. That's just the way things are...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
C'mon, Google: Allow for better review of AdSense banning

This is probably an issue I should have addressed ten or so years ago. It angered me then but now, it's absolutely infuriating. Not that I actually expect anything proactive to be done, of course. But hey, avalanches start with one pebble rolling into places that a pebble doesn't belong. So who knows?It's about Google's AdSense program. And how...
Thursday, October 05, 2023
One day, this will be mine (I hope!)

See
this? It's an enlargement. The originals are about the size of modern printed currency... I first saw this at a Boy Scout camporee in September of 1985. I
was a brand new full Boy Scout. They were handing out life-size copies
of this: A ten shilling note used during the Siege of Mafeking during the Boer War in South Africa.It dates back...
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Commentary: The Boredom Machine

Ruins of the Capitolfrom the video game Fallout 3It's been several hours since some semblance of a historical event transpired here in America: Kevin McCarthy was ousted from being Speaker of the House in the House of Representatives. It's the first time that's ever happened. McCarthy is now third place in being shortest term of office for a speaker.I've taken...
Monday, October 02, 2023
Artificial intelligence has original singers performing "Weird Al" Yankovic's parodies... and it's pretty horrifying

This is already the scariest thing I've seen all month... and it's only October 2nd. A terrible, terrible line has been crossed. Advanced technology really is taking us to places that, not to put too fine a point on it, are unnatural to the extreme.Andy Baio at Waxy.org has applied artificial intelligence to a lot of songs - which are mostly parodies of other artists...
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Welcome to Matt Smith's weekly Sunday School!

Very good friend Matt Smith (no not the Doctor Who actor!) and I go back a few years, all the way to our time together at that very strange television station in Reidsville, North Carolina. I learned a lot about video and broadcasting from Matt, and I continue to learn much from him since his becoming active with the online realm, sharing his talents and...
Monday, September 25, 2023
Elementary school kids in Arkansas produced an AMAZING Indiana Jones fan film and you can watch it now!

This is... THE greatest thing that I have seen in a very long time. These kids are... wow. They are amazing! They were able to pull off what a lot of us thirty and forty years ago were only able to dream of doing. I know my best friend Chad and I used to plan out our own Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies. How when we grew up we would be the next...