Category: Personal

Another recap of my Italian vacation. This stop: Siena, the medieval tourist attraction.

The overwhelming nature of the Vatican Museums and my fundamental inability to understand Catholicism.

Another travelogue from Italy. This stop: the Colosseum, Forum, and Capitoline Museum.

The Pantheon was the most impressive sight of my entire Italian vacation. I can’t explain exactly why.

The start of my travelogues from my Italian vacation. First stop: general observations of Rome.

I’m planning a trip to Italy, and y’all are invited to listen to me moan about it.

I’m not buying one of Amazon’s Kindles until it comes with these features. And until Apple makes it.

The 2009 San Francisco WonderCon, and where to draw the line at geek pride.

Make your own! Some good ones available via twitter search.

I was going to make some kind of comment to the effect that the reason the Colonials on “Battlestar Galactica” need Cylon technology so much is to enable all their faster-than-light jumps over sharks. But I thought better of it, partly because “jumping the shark” is such a tired expression now, but also because “twirling…

Hey, speaking of old video and VCR effects, here’s one of my favorite things they’ve ever done on “Saturday Night Live,” “Body Fuzion:” The best part (apart from the music) is how Drew Barrymore looks like she can’t deliver a line without cracking up. Also: “Penthels!”