I certainly thought I would have no difficulty coming up with space and astronomy-themed words for a project I was working on. Surely, amidst all the eons spent watching and reading SciFi material based in space, I ought to have a formidable vocabulary. Nope. My mind periodically imprisons itself with useless cyclical information. For nearly …
Read more »One of the TV shows I started to enjoy was Terra Nova, a SciFi show about people who left a polluted earth and traveled back in time to earth in a Prehistoric era. There are dinosaurs and adventure and all kinds of things I really enjoy (I saw Jurassic Park 15 times in the theater, …
Read more »Jessica Fletcher and the woman from Proverbs 31 give me a headache. Like M.C. Hammer, I can’t touch that. Jessica Fletcher jogs and bikes and fishes. She doesn’t drive a car. She is an excellent writer, and world-renowned. She travels everywhere, and gets invited to nearly every kind of event imaginable. She is educated and educates. …
Read more »I don’t have cable TV here in Bismarck. About the only thing I miss are the mind-numbing SyFy Saturday nights, which I only got acquainted with back home on the farm through Direct TV which was an impulse decision by my parents after I suggested we rig up an antennae so we could get PBS and I could watch the …
Read more »The Direct TV reception at the farm is suffering due to the aggressive and proud growth of a cottonwood in the front yard. Granted, if it rains heavily, the signal would deteriorate anyway, and I would chalk it up to God crying over the crap on TV and his tears forcing us to stop watching (or something …
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