Category Archives: Random Musings

Visitors to a public chat recently had a chance to participate in a live-action video game. An experiment by British production company Realm Pictures, it mimicked a first-person shooter, but with the players giving a live actor verbal instructions. The … Continue reading →

Mars rover Curiosity has been sending back some incredible pictures. Here’s a high-definition look at he Martian landscape I find inexplicably compelling. This is cool stuff! Here’s another view.

As I mentioned recently, Sofie, our sweetheart rottweiler-hound mix, had to be put down several weeks ago. Well, we knew we couldn’t do without a dog in our home for long, and so many are in need of one. From … Continue reading →

What if the poem you’ve been told all your life is a tribute to individualism, to charting your own course, wasn’t about that at all? There are few people in America who haven’t heard the Robert Frost poem “The Road … Continue reading →

Before Jean Shepherd became the man behind “A Christmas Story”, he was the man behind one of the biggest literary hoaxes in history. He and his late night talk radio show followers successfully got a book title “I, Libertine” on the … Continue reading →

I hear many people lamenting the lack of willingness to seek compromise, especially in the political realm. I’m one of them. But like most things, I suspect these people, myself included, haven’t completely thought things through. Is a compromise even desirable, let … Continue reading →

Peter Hollens teams up with Bored Shorts to present “Peter Hollens Voice Lessons!” I think this is mostly amusing because we don’t usually hear such sounds coming out of his mouth. And in case you don’t know what he usually … Continue reading →

It’s practically a cliche these days: Rising sports star with multi-million dollar contract winds up broke in a few years. But if Ryan Broyles of the Detroit Lions has his way, that won’t be his story. Though he’s made over … Continue reading →

Mytheos Holt has an interesting take on the Trump phenomenon in his latest article: Trump’s candidacy should also serve as a cautionary tale about just what happens when you try to brand even the smallest indiscretions as evidence that someone … Continue reading →

Last night I saw a meme pic on social media claiming that the USPS is not losing money, along with few other points, to back up the claim that it’s all a GOP smear campaign. I had some doubts about … Continue reading →