On Being More Like Mr. Rogers

At times, I feel unfinished. I have days where I feel unimportant.  There are times that I feel that I have done nothing of note in my life.  Sometimes I feel alone in my life, that I have no friends and that no one cares about me. There’s nothing remarkable about these feelings, I thinkContinue reading “On Being More Like Mr. Rogers”

On Linus and the Meaning of Christmas

My niece turned three on Monday, and on Saturday I went down to Virginia to spend the day with my sister and her family to celebrate my niece’s birthday. For my niece’s birthday, I gave her some Christmas socks and a recordable storybook of A Charlie Brown Christmas that I picked up at Hallmark aContinue reading “On Linus and the Meaning of Christmas”

On Ian Levine’s Throwdown With Simon Cowell

Dear Daily Fail. I don’t often read your publication, but Doctor Who uber-fan Ian Levine tweeted a cryptic link to your fine paper. Levine, as I’m sure you know, worked on Doctor Who producer John Nathan Turner in the 1980s, in much the same capacity that Richard Arnold worked for Star Trek producer Gene RoddenberryContinue reading “On Ian Levine’s Throwdown With Simon Cowell”

On Terry Pratchett and Assisted Suicide

Terry Pratchett is doing a documentary on assisted suicide for the BBC. Pratchett, the author of the Discworld novels, has been diagnosed himself with Alzheimer’s Disease. Said Pratchett, “I believe everybody possessed of a debilitating and incurable disease should be allowed to pick the hour of their death.” I can’t disagree with that. My dadContinue reading “On Terry Pratchett and Assisted Suicide”

On Sunday Afternoon Family Tree Researches

I visited my sister last weekend for Christmas. I had a fun time, except for the snow that fell Saturday night and knocked out the satellite signal ten minutes before Doctor Who‘s “A Christmas Carol” came on BBC America. Unfortunately, I brought more than Christmas presents home with me. I also brought home a cold.Continue reading “On Sunday Afternoon Family Tree Researches”

The Psi-Phi Project: Re(8629): Andorians seen in Trek

John wrote: You’d definitely be correct if Humans and Vulcans had evolvedseperately from different evolutionary ladders, etc. That’sprobably not the case, though. It’s been clearly established that an ancient race seeded the galaxy with their genetic code. Humans and Vulcans are most probably the same basic species — just widely variated and at the edgeContinue reading “The Psi-Phi Project: Re(8629): Andorians seen in Trek”