Season 3 of 24

Just got done watching the premiere of season three of “24″ in glorious HDTV. We don’t do the HDTV much because I don’t really watch much TV and the only TV I do see is if we tape CSI while the wife is at work (and HDTV doesn’t work on tape, it has to [...]

Here Comes The Sun… Not

The picture below is not doctored and not filtered. It’s a picture of the sun as the naked eye could see it in my backyard. I took this at 10:00 am this morning. It’s obscured by smoke from the local wildfires.

Here’s a shot of what the sky looks like behind the smoke:

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Red Mountain

If you’re local, you may now be aware of the crazy wildfires we have going on out near us. But Wednesday… no one was really talking about it much. Wednesday night I went out to the Beer Hunter with J.H. so I had to drive north on the I-15. As I was [...]

Elliott Smith dies

This sucks. Singer/Songwriter Elliott Smith has died, apparently suicide. He’s most famous to most folks as the guy who sang that one song from “Good Will Hunting” that was nominated for an Oscar.
I’ve been a fan of Smith’s ever since I saw that movie and have enjoyed all of his albums. Just [...]

Captain Scarlet, Baby! Yeah!

I just got the set of DVDs of “Captain Scarlet”! It’s Supermarionation, from the same people who created “The Thunderbirds”. For any of you who have been subjected to some of the weird things I’ve done with videotape in my youth, you might remember that some friends and I did an audio overdub [...]

A note about logins

I’m crazy. As if I don’t have enough to do around here, I went a little nutso on the web site this week. First let me explain how it affects you, the visitor (or member). In the past, you were required to register with the site and login in order to leave [...]

”Rescue Jet Fusion” Has It All

My wife has a strange fascination with the use of the human body as a shield. Some of her favorite movies are Total Recall (Arnold uses a nearby dead body as a shield on the escalator near the beginning of the movie), The Bourne Identity (the end stunt sequence) and, of course, the parody of [...]

Holy Crap! Cat bites hurt.

I shoulda let go after the first bite. But then I was mad and I was determined to get a hold of this damn cat (Parker) and lock her in the bathroom with her litter box (I had just caught her peeing on the carpet again). Well, that never happened. After the fourth or fifth [...]

Slow but sure… Vol. 4 is on the way

After taking a couple of months off, I’ve started work again on the fourth and final volume of “The Lip-Synch Videos” for you friends (the “Handy Street Theater Lyp-Sink Videos” might still be put on DVD someday). I’m working on the opening titles/menu now which is a learning experience… trying to jazz it up [...]

Hack your TiVo

I don’t really have a use for a TiVo, but I love the idea of what it does. I know that some of you have a TiVo and that some of you have already hacked into yours a bit. There’s a new book coming out on the subject that seems to be better [...]