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So, I was watching 20 years of Die Hard… Die Hard (1988)… Die Hard 2 (1990)… Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)… Live Free or Die Hard (2007) over the last few days and I wanted to post something about the series.  With the rush of the initial viewing of Live Free or Die [...]

So, this whole steroids thing is just plain stupid — I am not going to use the term “Human Growth Hormone” or HGH, because it is what it is: Steroids. Check out Andy Pettitte who came out and “apologized” this weekend. Here’s what he said:
“I didn’t do it to try to [...]

So, I was kind of wary going into the Knight Rider movie last night. Knight Rider was one of those shows that I loved as a kid. As a naive kid 25 years ago, everything in the show was cool. A lot of the stuff in the show did not make [...]

I wandered over to my sister’s blog this morning and she had a posting where she got all introspective and stuff.
What interested me was that she made a comparison between us — we are our parent’s only kids.  She figured that when the genes were sorted out, she got the “worry-til-your-hair-goes-white, I-hate-people” gene, while [...]

There’s stupid and then, well there’s f*cking stupid. The “director of field marketing for Web analytics company Omniture Inc” (his name was removed, but you can get it from the article) really puts himself and his company in a bad light when he becomes irate about the recent Blackberry outage. Yes, a [...]

I just blew through Torchwood Season One as a rental from Netflix.  Torchwood is a spin-off series from the new Doctor Who series (”Torchwood” is an anagram for “Doctor Who”).  Torchwood follows the adventures of the immortal Captain Jack Harkness — who was introduced in Doctor Who — and his team of alien hunters.  [...]

Today is probably the only day that DVRs around the country are being used for their inverse functionality:
Skip through programming, watch commercials.
That’s because the commercials are so much more entertaining than a bunch of dudes piling on top of each other — or chasing each other and a ball up and down a grass [...]