Sonic Drive-ins are an interesting bit of Americana. Emulating old episodes of Happy Days, these restaurants are designed fir you to drive up, park, order through a speaker next to your car and then your food us delivered right to the car where you proceed to eat it. Personally, apart from the novelty, I hate … Read more
Why on earth would the city of Phoenix send out a work crew to start work replacing a perfectly good fire hydrant with another fire hydrant at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon? Like how they mostly block off my driveway? Update: 6:30, it’s getting dark and they’re still sitting around in the hole. At least … Read more
Some 15 years ago we used to have a little thing called “Public Access TV”, now largely defunct. For those not familiar with the concept, Public Access was supposed to be a way that local community members could use the medium of television to reach out to their community. In one of the brighter, more … Read more
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
Yes… I think that is fair to say.
I suppose enough time has passed and the story is funny enough – once I could distance myself from the pain – that I should at least blog it as a warning to my future self. It may not have escaped regular readers of the blog’s attention that I like a lot of things about … Read more
…for the Center For Inquiry, and may I just say these are the people who put out Skeptical Inquirer magazines, one of my favorite reads.
OK, so the theme from Daniel Craig’s first Bond film wasn’t the most memorable Bond film of all time, but it had the habit of growing on you a bit. Quantum of Solace’s theme song was debuted on the BBC yesterday and I can only hope they follow the trend started in the last film … Read more
Yesterday, on the 9th anniversary of the moon being blasted out of Earth’s orbit, we celebrated by attending Walking with Dinosaurs, the Live Experience. This is a multi-million dollar extravaganza (the production, not – quite – the ticket price) to bring life-sized dinosaurs from the Walking with Dinosaurs series to life, on stage. No matter … Read more
Driving south on 19th Ave today, I saw this amusing situation. I wasn’t in a position to take a picture except through my mirror as I reached the first stop light. What you can kind of see in the blow up is that the white car has managed to beach itself on the curb that … Read more