I love LEGO. No surprise there. Others decorate their cubicles at work with action figures. I have LEGO TIE-Fighters. If I could figure out a way of getting the USS Constellation to work safely, I’d decorate my cubicle with that, too. (Maybe in the spring, when I have a new cubicle on the fourth floor.Continue reading “On BrickJournal”
Author Archives: Allyn
On iPhone Pondering
Not having used — or even seen, for that matter — Apple’s iPhone, the post that follows may be well be completely uninformed and ignorant. You have been warned. 😉 I know, roughly, what the size of an iPhone is. And roughly the size of the screen, too. How is the iPhone something you’d wantContinue reading “On iPhone Pondering”
On Movie Sequel Musings
Yesterday some reader out there punched four words into Google, and to this website she — or possibly he — came. What information might that nameless reader have wanted to know about? “Across the Universe sequel.” I mostly enjoyed Across the Universe. I picked up the two-disc soundtrack, and I’m looking forward to the DVDContinue reading “On Movie Sequel Musings”
On Beatles Pedantry
I have seven different versions of the song “Let It Be” on my hard drive. And for some reason I’ve been comparing the George Harrison guitar solo in all seven versions. Harrison, at various times, recorded new guitar solos for the song, as the whole project was worked on by various producers between January 1969Continue reading “On Beatles Pedantry”
On the Founding Fathers
Sunday’s Washington Post ran an interesting editorial by historian Joseph Ellis, author of numerous books on the Founding Fathers, with the headline, “What Would George Do?” The question Ellis asks — how would the Founding Fathers, like Washington and Jefferson, react to the problems facing the nation today, like Iraq, the media, and so forth?Continue reading “On the Founding Fathers”
On Christmas Morning Philosophy
So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over A new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear ones The old and the young A merry merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without anyContinue reading “On Christmas Morning Philosophy”
On Mitt Romney’s Anti-Endorsement
Newspapers have been endorsing candidates at all levels of the political process for years. People running for President, for instance, covet the endorsements of newspapers, both in the general election and the primaries. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen anything quite like this, before, though. The Concord Monitor, in Concord, New Hampshire, ran anContinue reading “On Mitt Romney’s Anti-Endorsement”
On Holiday Greetings
I had to run to the grocery store this morning — there were a few odds-and-ends I needed to pick up. Things like tea. I’m not a tea person, unless it’s mint tea, but it’s a good thing to have around. Also, I needed bathroom cleaning supplies. Thousand Flushes Blue, that sort of thing. AsContinue reading “On Holiday Greetings”
On a Beatle-esque “Stairway to Heaven”
After writing about my indifference to Led Zeppelin two weeks ago, I have to admit that this cover of “Stairway to Heaven” is one of the niftiest things I’ve heard in a long while. It’s by an Australian Beatles tribute band, the Beatnix. What I especially like about the video is the way the footageContinue reading “On a Beatle-esque “Stairway to Heaven””
On a Winter Wonderland
It’s December 23rd. It’s foggy, and it’s rainy. It should be a winter wonderland, shouldn’t it? Snow and trees and snow, right? Well, it can be. On my blog, anyway. Brian Gardner, who designed the Vertigo Blue theme I’ve been using for a while now, released last year a Christmas theme for WordPress called “Wonderland.”Continue reading “On a Winter Wonderland”