My family is clamoring for a new HDTV.Mind you, there are three of us and we already have three TVs: a 32″ in the living room, a 16″ in my bedroom, and another 17″ with a built-in DVD player in my daughter’s room. All hooked up to cable. We used to have a fourth, in [...]
Entries from December 2006
December 18, 2006
Something to think about
As I get older, I regret all the things I never learned in school. I always wanted to take philosophy classes, but all you can do with that is think and teach. Steve Martin once said that you can take a course and you forget about in shoon thereafter, but taking one philosophy course is [...]
December 14, 2006
"Put on a yarmulka, it’s time for … Chrismukkah"
(With apologies to that master thespian, Adam Sandler.)
According to Wikipedia, Chrismukkah is the modern-day merging of Christmas and Hanukka as celebrated in interfaith or in a household of two Jewish parents where one may not be religious at all and has a desire to put up a Christmas tree while the other is very religious [...]
December 13, 2006
Book Review — Walt Disney: Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler’s exhaustive biography of one of America’s iconic figures follows his subject from a humble Missouri childhood to his (relatively) sudden death at age 65. Gabler is the first writer to be given complete access to the Disney archives, and it shows in this meticulously researched book. Reviewed by Ron Kaplan on Bookreporter.com.
December 12, 2006
Cellphone etiquette: An oxymoron?
“Are Blackberry users the new smokers?” asks an editorial in USA Today, decriying the lack of courtesy when it comes to cell phone use.
While there doesn’t seem to be a similar “second-hand” danger, many find being in proximity to someone lost in conversation to the exlcusion of being aware of their surroundings just as obnoxious, [...]
