Author Archives: Steve

A cute Ghibli tribute

See if you can name all the titles depicted above.

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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have the right idea

Too many concerts are being ruined by wannabe videographers holding up their frickin’ cameras in everyone else’s line of sight. If you’ve been to a live show in the last several years you’d know it all too well; these two … Continue reading

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RIP Carmine Infantino

Another key figure of the Silver Age passed away last week. Carmine’s most famous contribution was the revamped Flash in Showcase #4. Many say this 1956 comic book was the Silver Age’s beginning but for me, things don’t get rolling … Continue reading

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Finally! A Dark Crystal joke

Now I can’t shake that weird noise the exiled Skeksis used to make whenever he was scheming.

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Stars in the playoffs

Despite dropping two of their weekend home games, they still won the first of five road games yesterday to clinch a berth. I had no doubt they’d make it. I have been more concerned about them having enough points to … Continue reading

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Three-thousand posts!

It was a pretty sweet weekend around Austin with all the cool places and things I did, namely with the conclusion ending in a 97-point, first-place victory at tonight’s GWD. There was a lot I wanted to cover but I … Continue reading

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Live long and prosspurrrrrr

I think my cats are part Vulcan because they’re trying to mind meld with me in order to do their bidding. Before then I just thought they were making biscuits. Nemo isn’t Vulcan since pissing on the floor is illogical when … Continue reading

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RIP Roger Ebert

I first saw or noticed Roger Ebert in the Seventies on Public TV, co-hosting a movie review show with Gene Siskel. The show was interesting because film criticism was usually reserved to print, at least it was when I was kid. … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Tardar, aka Grumpy Cat!

I never get tired of this cat, she’s so cute and I missed out on meeting her at SXSW. I think Tardar’s owners brought her in for a Friskies commerical plus the photo ops went to charity. Now there’s an … Continue reading

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Apple badge reader or centurion?

Not my doing, really. I know that Cylons’ eye moves side to side, they don’t illuminate continuously.

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One thousand miles achieved!

This running landmark took about two years and three months but I did it! I should’ve hit this mark weeks ago, really months, yet my health hasn’t always been optimal for exercise. I’ll take it though. Running on a treadmill … Continue reading

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Best April Fool’s Day in a while

I haven’t had this much fun with my second or third favorite holiday (New Year’s is number one with me) since we tricked people into thinking Somara was pregnant; medically impossible after early 2008. This year at Apple we did … Continue reading

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RIP Jane Henson

How sad to see the news regarding Jane’s passing because we have third-row seats to see Stuffed and Unstrung next week. If you haven’t heard of this it’s Brian Henson’s adult puppet show (he can’t use Muppet now that Disney … Continue reading

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Under the wire anniversaries to Apple & Waterloo Records

Today is a momentous occasion…besides some great jokes I’ve heard and played…involving two big facets of my life. Firstly, it’s the 37th birthday of Apple formerly known as Apple Computer. The “Computer” part was dropped several years ago thanks to … Continue reading

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Happy 14th birthday Miette

My oldest and second cat celebrates what Science guesses as her 14th birthday (70 for a human). Miette may be the second cat I’ve ever adopted on my own (all cats before Molly belonged to the whole family: Teddy, Mewsette, … Continue reading

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