Holy moley. Strom Thurmond has finally kicked the bucket. 100 years is a good long run, that’s for sure.
The year is 1986 and your favorite Disneyland attraction has closed to make way for George Lucas’ Star Tours. What do you do? Well you sit around moping for the good ol’ days for about thirteen years, then you rebuild the whole damn thing in a 3D modeling program. In this case, it’s Monsanto’s long-gone…
I was out of the office sick the past two days, but the good news is that I was home to accept delivery of our new grill. We got the propane version of the Weber Genesis Gold B and it rocks. We made burgers, dogs, and zukes last night and they were all pretty good….
Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room opened to the public 40 years ago today. The Tiki Room was the first Disney attraction to ever use audio-animatronic figures, and over 200 of them at that! It’s not kept up very well nowadays, and the content may be a little dated, it still makes me happy. There’s something…
Yesterday I replaced some more landscape lights, and we went to two garden centers scouting out possible replacements for a sweetgum tree with wandering roots in our front yard. I’m leaning towards a king palm, but Tammy’s got her eyes set on a european white birch. We’re still researching though! Since we moved in, we…
Tammy’s a huge Harry Potter fan, so of course we did the midnight run to the bookstore just now. I haven’t been living in Anaheim Hills for very long, but I have never seen our Borders parking lot even half-full. Tonight it was out of control. Every space was taken, cars were double and triple…
Monk’s second season starts tonight at 10pm, PST. If you haven’t seen Monk before, tune in tonight or tell your Tivo to grab it! It’s great. Tony Shalhoub stars as the obsessive-compulsive Adrian Monk. This was the sleeper hit of 2002’s TV season if you ask me!
This just in! I now understand why Iridial Recordings gives away their recordings for free. They seem to specialize in Avant Garde ‘music,’ and man, you can’t give that stuff away no matter how hard you try. Have a listen. If you can force yourself to sit through to any of their albums all the…
You know those spy radio transmissions I was talking about a few days ago? Well I found that the publisher of The Conet Project, Irdial Recordings, has an extremely liberal free music policy which applies to their entire catalog. That is rocking. So now, for your enjoyment, here is the complete downloadable four-CD set of…
Wow. It must suck to work for Steve Jobs. This excerpt from a new book documenting the birth of the Segway HT is an interesting read.