Random Acts of Mind by Dones

Once again, I’m here to reiterate that yes, I’m voting for Obama next Tuesday. People still ask me ‘why,’ and so I thought I’d outline my entire voting strategy this year. First, the Republicans are in trouble this year. I feel like a first-rate idiot for voting Bush in 2004 and 2008, though when I’ve [...]

As I continue the lament (started by Engadget) of the the VCR, as least in stand-alone form, I am reminded of the very first one we got when I was a kid. It was the early, early 80s when we got our first VHS cassette player/recorder, and I think it was a second-hand unit from [...]

This was too big to just be posted to Facebook. What’s the big deal, you say? Mr. Olberman explains this better than I can. Sufficed to say, how can McCain be trusted if he lies in private phone call to someone like David Letterman?

As I’m sitting here watching my nearly 5-month-old son haphazardly rolling around on the floor (thankfully he doesn’t move too quickly), I was reminded that I have yet to make known my thoughts so far about the presidential election. So I muted the rerun of ‘Psych’ on the TV, left ‘Cranky Geeks’ running in the [...]

I don’t have much time to type, but let me briefly interject that I’m not all that pleased with Obama’s choice of Sen. Joe Biden for his VP nominee. While it’s not as antithetical to my preferences as an Obama-Clinton ticket would be, I don’t have a good opinion of Biden. I’ll have to do [...]

Death Star Groom’s Cake Originally uploaded by metamorphilia. My friend Jeff is the Star Wars geek I could never be. At his wedding on Saturday, his groom’s cake was shaped like the Death Star! I have more photos which will be posted & fully operational soon…

Regardless of what one thinks of Obama, I think he was purposely mischaracterized by Dr. James Dobson the other day. I listened to Obama’s 6/28/2006 speech on religion & morality in politics, and I thought he was fair and accurate in his assessment of the relationship between the three subjects. I don’t know why Dobson [...]

Here’s what I say: The answer to high fuel prices must change from changing the supply to changing the demand. It starts at home, with gasoline conservation like James has outlined. We’ve got to start using less gasoline. It continues from there to further investment and commitment for mass transit in urban and suburban areas. [...]

SANTA MONICA, CA– In a stunning move that will likely have the stand-up comedy profession in an uproar for years to come, God has banned veteran comic George Carlin from making any future live performances. This is only the latest in a long string of live performance bans by the Big Guy, who many say [...]

Quote from Ars Technica: ‘Almost two dozen public interest groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to start a proceeding on what they call “advertainment”—TV programming saturated with product placement. “We must not allow television programs to become Trojan® horses,” the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) wrote to the FCC on Thursday.’ That [...]