stallioncornell

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

Allyou global warming alarmists can bite me. To think I was in Hawaii yesterday... ... Read more

Fourout of five of my children play soccer every Saturday, which means we attend three different games, depending on the schedules. (The twins play on the same team, so that's why the math doesn't quite add up.) Today, it's raining. Hard. It was even hailing at times. Yet two of the games went on as ... Read more

Whilein Oahu, waiting for my next leg of my journey home, I got a call from Hawaiian Airlines telling me that the next leg of my flight had been postponed from 9:25 last night until 6:15 this morning. I told them that was unacceptable, and to mollify me, they offered me 300 more frequent flier ... Read more

I'mgoing home today, a little older, a little wiser, and somewhat fatter. Here are some tidbits I discovered whilst slaving away on Hawaii's Garden isle: 1) I dig Ni'ihau. Kauai’s next-door neighbor is the island of Ni’ihau, but think twice if you want to invite them over for a family barbecue. You can’t visit. Locals ... Read more

Asa little kid, I wanted to be a brain surgeon. I heard they make lots of money, and you had to be really smart to do it. Then I met a brain surgeon. He was old and crusty looking. I didn't want to be old and crusty looking, so I decided I needed to be ... Read more

Drivingaround Kauai all day yesterday taking pretty pictures, I had plenty of time to listen to a bunch of conservative radio hosts lament Iranian nutjob Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech to Columbia University. Rush Limbaugh noted how much the guy sounded like a traditional Democrat in his Bush bashing. Michael Medved applauded the fact that at least ... Read more

Sundaywas better than Saturday. I’ve figured out a workaround for the video shoot – I’m just not going to shoot in HD. That bugs me, but it’s probably irrelevant anyway, since all of this footage is only going to be used on the web. So I spent the day filming pretty things and even got ... Read more