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This is why I don’t like Borat

| August 12, 2009

Recently across various parts of the Internet there has been a lot of talk about something that happened at Chicago Wizard World Convention. A man who goes by the Internet handle of “The Yellow Hat Guy,” because he wears a distinctive yellow hat at conventions, blogged about his ambush humor against Rob Liefeld and how […]

Happy Birthday to my Father-in-law Gunter David

| August 10, 2009

Today is my FiL’s 80th Birthday. We went up and celebrated with the whole family this weekend. It was nice to see everyone and the cousins had a grand time with each other. Caroline had her sleepover with her younger cousins on Saturday night. I think the only disappointment for the girls was the lack […]

Network Talent

| August 8, 2009

Yesterday Ariel performed in the local teen talent show which was sponsored by the library during a local festival. She did the famous Howard Beale speech which culminate to the famous line, “I’m as mad as h-ll and I am not going to take it anymore.” She got the crowd going. Peter wrote a short […]

Why George Sodini’s actions disturb me so much

| August 7, 2009

George Sodini walked into an LA Fitness gym on August 4th, went into one of the classes, turned off the lights, and started shooting indiscriminately. He killed himself too so many of the questions that will never be answers went with him. He was a coward. He couldn’t face the women he was going to […]

I guess I am on my way to being a Dinosaur

| August 6, 2009

I don’t like e-books. The few I own are mostly pattern books that I have printed out, three-holed punched, and put into a binder. When e-book readers were young and much larger, I got to play around with a number of models while at Del Rey. Formatting was still being sorted out for the readers […]