Last night I started pondering “Shada,” the Doctor Who serial written by Douglas Adams during Tom Baker’s era that went unfinished (due to industrial strikes) and was later remade as an audio drama with Paul McGann. In the course of the story the Doctor and Romana go to visit Professor Chronotis, who keeps rooms atContinue reading “On Saint Cedd”
On Checking the Mail
Y’know, I think she likes me, too. 😉
On All Those Years Ago
It was forty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play…. Well, not quite. But it was forty years ago today, on September 8th, 1966, that Star Trek debuted on NBC. Celebrate in style! Put in a DVD, watch a movie or your favorite episode. Read a book–might I recommend Constellations, a bookContinue reading “On All Those Years Ago”
On Political Persuasions
Stolen shamelessly from Ross, my political persuasion! You Are a New School Democrat You like partying and politics – and are likely to be young and affluent. You’re less religious, traditional, and uptight than most Democrats. Smoking pot, homosexuality, and gambling are all okay in your book. You prefer that the government help people takeContinue reading “On Political Persuasions”
On the Things We Now Know
Bernard Weiner, at the Crisis Papers, has written an essay about the “Twenty Things We Now Know Five Years After 9/11.” Now that we’re five years past the events of that Tuesday morning in September, Weiner takes stock of what’s happened to the United States in that span of time. His observations? Not good. InContinue reading “On the Things We Now Know”
On a Movie Meme
Snurched from Todd Kogutt, a movie meme! If I’ve seen a hundred of these, I have no life.
On a European PlayStation 3 Delay
Sony had intended for the PlayStation 3 to launch simultaneously on three continents in November. They have now scrapped those plans. The European launch of the PS3 has been pushed back to the spring of 2007. According to The Register, “The revision of the launch date is caused by the delay in the mass productionContinue reading “On a European PlayStation 3 Delay”
On Bad Writing
I was thinking today of Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was a writer I discovered in college, and I discovered Hemingway much on my own. I cannot think of a single English class where I had to read any Hemingway. One day, I went to the bookstore, picked up a copy of A Farewell to Arms, pluckedContinue reading “On Bad Writing”
On Going to the Mall
I went to Owings Mills Mall today. It’s about five minutes from my grandmother’s house. When I was younger — say, twenty years ago — the backroads to the mall were through fields and cropland. Today, it’s endless townhouses and developments. I think I prefer the olden days. The world seemed so much bigger then.Continue reading “On Going to the Mall”
On Staying the Course, and Insanity
Last night, in an on-line chat, a friend brought up a defintion of insanity–doing the same thing repeatedly, but expecting different results. I’m not certain who came up with that defintion–I’ve heard it was Albert Einstein, but it may predate even him–and it’s not a definition I’ve always agreed with–circumstances do change, and that canContinue reading “On Staying the Course, and Insanity”