I’ve always found sense memories to be terribly interesting phenomena. My most intense sense memory involves the texture and flavor of pancakes with butter and apricot syrup at a Perkins somewhere near what I think was Omaha when I was somewhere around the age of 7ish. I think we were coming home from a funeral [...]

I think I spent about 10 hours listening to live music yesterday. It might have been 11, but it’s hard to remember precisely at this point. There is one particular good, and one particular not-so-good observation I have from yesterday however. Good: SPF30 sunscreen, applied early enough, does actually keep me from roasting my skin [...]

This weekend is the final half of the Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz Festival, which has quite a few local and national jazz acts performing on mostly free stages in and around Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis. I have been to at least some portion of each of the last four festivals and have been [...]

A friend recently bought the Iron Man Disassembled tpb and I mentioned how I had thought it was one of the worst Iron Man stories in quite awhile. Unfortunately when challenged for specifics I actually couldn’t quite remember why, but I did remember the story leaving a bad taste in my mouth that was only [...]

This actually took longer than I had expected: AACS has been cracked. Good analysis here. I lost a bet (for no actual money, but I do owe someone dinner) that said it would be done before Thanksgiving with the release of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player. Tags: dinner, movie

In the last two weeks I’ve run into something a little different at two places that I’ve been for dinner. It appears that both the new Chatterbox Pub location in Highland Park and Signature Cafe in Prospect Park are serving sodas from The Shamrock Group. So far, the cola and the root beer flavors that [...]

The following is the contents of the login quote file from L-Space: vaxjo: this is a test! Mainsail: Oh dear..It’s the brain again…Will someone kindly beat me senseless? Glyph: And then there was…. well, something resembling a great big mess. Mainsail: BBC Reporter talking about the Middle East conflict: “The Lesban..Libbanese…Lesbian Millitant….Oh damn…Lebanese Millitant Group [...]

With the house pretty much clean, the roast in the oven, and everything else out of my hands for dinner this afternoon it’s nice to take a few minutes to rest and think. There has been a fairly common tradition with the American holiday of Thanksgiving to talk about all of the things that one [...]

So I went and saw Disney’s Beauty and the Beast IMAX Special Edition last night at the Minnesota Zoo last night. Mostly it was as good as I remember it. There were several things that translated really well to the really-big screen, and a few that didn’t enough to almost be distracting. For example, there [...]