Month: October 2007

Sayingthe name “Languatron” aloud in polite company is a slightly disturbing experience. I’ve certainly done it on a few occasions, usually with members of my family. (My wife likes to use the handle “Languatron” when we play laser tag, in honor of Langy’s own stated enthusiasm for that particular activity.) But last night, my strange ... Read more

Mywife gave me a copy of WarCraft II for Christmas of 1996, about two weeks before my first daughter was born. She’s never given me another video game since. I can’t begin to calculate the hours I wasted sneaking off to play that game. Just one more level. Just let me finish this. I’ll be ... Read more

Idig Ann Coulter. There. I said it. Respectable conservatives are supposed to shun her, because she “goes too far.” She says incendiary things that are supposedly an embarrassment to all good-hearted people. Liar Al Franken says she’s a lying liar. Hillary Clinton has called her heartless, and Elizabeth Edwards, if she were just a touch ... Read more

Despitemy crusade against the horrors of transporter technology, I'm a Trek fan from way back. In college, after final exams, I would set up my little TV/VCR combo and watch Star Trek movies into the night. Not sure why this ritual caught on, but I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to soothe your ... Read more

Back in high school, Bruce Springsteen was the bee’s knees. I remember seeing him in concert in 1984 at the L.A. Sports Arena during the Born in the USA tour, sitting up in the nosebleed seats. It was a quasi-religious experience. The concert lasted well over three hours, and after the last chord had been ... Read more

OrsonScott Card wrote a wonderful short story entitled "Fat Farm" which tells the story of obese people who go in and have their brains duplicated into new, thin bodies. The problem was that the old bodies were still around, too, and terrible things ended up happening to them. For my purposes, that’s neither here nor ... Read more