I set my DVR to record “Dirty Jobs” on Discovery Channel and suddenly I have about 20 of them recorded in one day. It’s a fun show to watch and I think it may have been sponsored by my current employer to give me a different perspective and stop bitching about my job.I understand the [...]

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I am becoming regular Siskel and Ebert here (whichever one is still alive) but the movie weekend continues and with it comes another review.It takes fairly large film-making cojones to name a movie “The three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” at a time when any movie title longer than one word gets shortened to T3, [...]

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5 days off with nothing to do seems like a good time to provide public service by watching some movies you will never see so you can spend your time on something more worthwhile like buying, cooking and eating a turkey and pretending to like it, surrounded by your relatives who you are pretending to [...]

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On my first day at work I met another new hire - an older black gentleman speaking with the funny accent. We’ve spent some time going to school together and one day after class over a drink he told me one of the most fascinating stories I’ve heard in person. Turns out my new friend, [...]

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I don’t care if you smoke, but if you are a nurse in the ophthalmologist’s office which is a place without much fresh air flow, spraying yourself with toilet air freshener does not help. I don’t care about second-hand smoke (I inhaled lots of first-hand smoke in my time), but if I wanted to [...]

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Yesterday I realized that I sound totally gay: I like to cook, bake and after certain events I redecorated my house. I own a KitchenAid Professional Mixer and subscribe to Cooks Illustrated in print and online. I review soups and brag about shopping at Costco. And while some people write about their manly adventures I [...]

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Interesting article about iPhone-wielding airline passenger trying to give a few pointers on weather delays to the captain. I think the captain should be promoted for handling situation calmly and not trying to shove the iPhone up the passenger’s ass.“If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough,” he began, “to use it to [...]

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If I could, I’d buy everything online. I am already making steps in that direction: I bank, rent DVD’s, buy things and meet women (OK 1(one) woman) online. I even bought shoes online before, which is really taking chances. Even if I can’t buy something I want online I will research it, read Consumer [...]

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