Charlie Brooker on Psychics and Creationism

I’ve only recently heard of Charlie Brooker, when one of his videos concerning how news reports are made went viral (or at least viral in the circles I follow.) Since then, I’ve been “catching up” with his series, Screenwipe and Newswipe where he has a very refreshingly incisive view of television and the news. Here … Read more

iPad… is there a gap to fill?

I’ve been shying away from reading commentary today about the iPad, mostly because I wanted to form my opinions in a vacuum (like I always do 🙂 ) on the device. I’ll say in retrospect that I am one of those people who thinks a tablet computer is generally a bad idea… at least as … Read more

England – Fading on the Horizon

The shoe finally fell tonight. We’ve known for weeks approximately what was going to happen, but we’ve been in a holding pattern to see what form it would take. The State of Arizona, like all the states is experiencing a drastic turn-down in tax revenue. Like many governments, Arizona spends its tax money before it … Read more

New Immigration Problems

A lot has been said about the problem with illegal immigrants coming up from Mexico and there’s a lot of mindless polemic on both sides, which I shall not address here. If you live somewhere like Phoenix where the numbers of immigrants (both legal and illegal) is high, you may have noticed that the recent … Read more

The Kitchen Progresses

It’s been a frenzied day (and last evening) of building IKEA kitchen cabinets. Our handyman finished the sealing of the new tile floor and today marked the start of cabinet installation, so I had to get them ready. I’m actually quite impressed with the ingenuity that IKEA has engineered into their cabinet system – with … Read more

Shooting reporters for the good of China?

When I first read this article, I thought the Chinese had come up with a clever way to get rid of pesky journalists in the run-up to their Olympic-committee sponsored propaganda orgy they’ll be having next month. Three Chinese reporters attending a police briefing on the success of an anti-gun campaign were accidentally shot, media … Read more

Kitchens – Specifically

So, we have all that new-found (potential) income and Ikea only holds their prices stable in one-year increments, so, come June 30 prices on the rest of our kitchen cabinets were due to jump – or, possibly, be discontinued. In the last week of June we purchased the cabinets to complete our two-phase kitchen renovation. … Read more