Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category

National Beard and Mustache Championship

A. The Beard Team USA National Beard and Moustache Championships are being held here in Bend, OR in a few weeks. Don’t ask me why – I don’t know.  But it’ll make for some fun news headlines, I’m sure. B. My money is on this guy for the Freestyle category:

Yike Bike Thoughts

My mother-in-law just pointed me to the Yike Bike, a “A radical new electric bicycle … expected to transform the way urban commuters navigate congested cities.” And I have to admit, it looks really cool! … or really stupid.  I can’t decide which. My first thought was, “Why would you make a carbon-fiber tricycle,” because that’s [...]

Consumerism 2.0

Like the good, responsible, post-millennium, Gen-X, yuppies my wife and I are, we try to do our part not to be too conspicuous in our consumption.  But, boy, sometimes it’s pretty damn difficult. Take, for example, our cell phones.  They’re old and beat up but they work well enough, except the batteries are toast; gotta [...]

Kid-toons

Keeping to my theme of, “‘Loving Fatherhood, but Not Getting Gushy About It”: And, yeah, I don’t know why they don’t have this stuff on the Cartoon Network either.

Sharpe’s Review

I used to consider myself a voracious reader, back when I was in my teens and twenties.  I devoured science fiction at a pretty good rate.  However as I’ve gotten older I am reading less and less.  The problem, largely, is that I simply don’t have the stamina I used to.  Most of my reading [...]