A friend of mine, and comic artist (the guy who did the great pictures of a lot of Circus-13 characters) just pointed me to this article about possible new copyright laws here in the US called The Orphan Bill.
Essentially what it boils down to is copyrights would no longer be handled by the government but by corporations. Anyone see the problem with this yet? It gets better. Read More »
I get a daily horoscope from Astrology.com. Okay, I get a couple of them. But the Chinese one always seems a little weird. Almost like it's translated from the Chinese using a translator program and then never "cleaned up" using proper English. Sometimes it has extra prepositions, sometimes it's contradictory and it needs to be edited a bit better. Take today's for example. Read More »
That's the name of the book I just finished reading. It's by one of my favorite authors, Robert B. Parker. He created the characters Spenser, Hawk and Susan Silverman (eventually made into the tv show Spenser: For Hire starring the late Robert Urich). It's one of his newer books I don't own yet (I have most of them and at least a third of them in hardback), so this copy is from the library. Read More »
I know, it's not that big a deal, but I finally got new strings (and a new strap) for my bass before our gig this weekend. This is about the closest we'll be playing to Peoria for a bit and we'll be in Washburn. Some of you who haven't wanted to drive an hour plus just to see my band 3 Jack Voodoo might want to consider coming to Washburn (Webb's Roadhouse) to hear us play. Read More »
The First Annual Procrastinators' Anonymous Society meeting has been postponed until next year. The Society was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1779 and has yet to hold their first meeting. Benjamin Franklin, although a founder, was never a member. Notable members from the American Revolutionary War (aka The American War for Independence) include David Johnson, Stephen Frome, Jackson E. Read More »
Remember that game that came out in the 80's? Scruples? Read More »
Emilie and I were talking the other day about people's knowledge nowadays. She was having issues with someone at work. She told a fork-truck driver to do something because another one of her fork-truck drivers was going to be leaving in 10 minutes. He said something to the order of "He can do it, it'll take less than 10 minutes to do." She told him it didn't matter, she asked him to do it. Read More »
