The Golden Age of Saturday Night Live is a misnomer.  Everyone has their own golden age and it’s always about whenever you watched the show.  I mostly watched SNL in the late 90s and early 2000s as well as a dabbling of reruns from the early 90s.  Of of my favorite segments was Celebrity Jeopardy.  [...]

Dilbert is one of the most brilliant cartoons of the modern age. It isn’t deep like Calvin and Hobbes, it’s witty and original, offering color to the every day monotony of office life. It’s creator is Scott Adams, and back in January when we were all talking about taxes on the richest people, he wrote [...]

Bob Dylan famously said… cliche… about how things change.  It was a song that basically reports on the changes going on during the 1960s.  Since then Dylan’s song has become a cliche for any period that wasn’t like the prior one.  It’s all very boring. What isn’t so boring is the attempt to classify and [...]

I married into a family that loves to go look at houses.  Open houses, new builders, I’m sure they’ve even tried to break in to a few just to catch a peak. As a result I’ve seen more neighborhoods than  most school bus drivers.  And there was a common theme I saw in many of [...]

In my post about being green(ish) I talked about living within walking distance of everything I need.  That includes a grocery store. This make it really easy to slip in and pick up what food I need for a day or two.  As a result my place is littered with receipts.  My wife and I [...]

The BBC has a list of the biggest fouls the American language has had on the original “British” English.  Some of them are quite funny, funnier still is that the Brits think their language is either proper, or the way we’re supposed to speak English.  Don’t see much of them talking like Shakespeare or King [...]

I’m so thankful that Atlantis landed safely this week.  It is the end of an era, the end of a program that served as the symbolic champion for science and technology for decades.  It ran much longer than expected, partly because with each successive launch and a couple of tragedies people lost interest in the [...]

It seems like for over a year we saw headlines of nothing but layoffs.  Over the last few months we’ve started to see that again.  The official statistics on jobs make this not at all surprising.  Unemployment is up and jobless claims numbers are not where they need to be.  But other companies are hiring [...]