Misnomers

I don't tend to get colds, but when I do, it's a doozy. Being cooped up at home the last few days hasn't been much help, so I'm hoping the semi-fresh air and semi-bright sunshine out here at Strada will do me some good, disease-vectoring be damned.

Belated topic: Oscars. My giddy, incoherent babble aside about the company's win, I had planned on writing a bit about the movies, but never got around to finishing anything. So here goes.

I don't think anybody's really 'into' the Oscars per se, but it ...Read more

Cheeze it!

Cheeze it!

Gotcha!

Here's the plan. You distract them with questions about their childhood growing up blind in Brooklyn while I make a run for it!

Explanations:

1) In the opening monologue, Ellen joked that those stuck for an acceptance speech should fabricate a miserable childhood growing up with some disability in Brooklyn. As a joke, Knoll decided to make a remark to that effect....Read more

Cheeze it!

Gotcha!

Here's the plan. You distract them with questions about their childhood growing up blind in Brooklyn while I make a run for it!

Explanations:

1) In the opening monologue, Ellen joked that those stuck for an acceptance speech should fabricate a miserable childhood growing up with some disability in Brooklyn. As a joke, Knoll decided to make a remark to that effect....Read more

Never left

Never left

It may not have been as bad as Marty or Peter's dry spell, but going 12 years without a visit from Oscar has been quite long enough! The last one the company picked up was for Gump in '94. Up until then it never went Oscar-less for longer than two years.

The Read more

Never left

It may not have been as bad as Marty or Peter's dry spell, but going 12 years without a visit from Oscar has been quite long enough! The last one the company picked up was for Gump in '94. Up until then it never went Oscar-less for longer than two years.

The Read more

Stimulus Package

Stimulus Package

It's good for the economy! When the overgrown local gossip rag we like to call the SF Chronicle did a feature on the dip in HDTV prices, I finally had a look and found that a position had opened up for an HDTV in my household. I picked this (Sony 50" WEGA SXRD -- yes, it's 1080p) up on Superbowl Sunday w...Read more

Stimulus Package

It's good for the economy! When the overgrown local gossip rag we like to call the SF Chronicle did a feature on the dip in HDTV prices, I finally had a look and found that a position had opened up for an HDTV in my household. I picked this (Sony 50" WEGA SXRD -- yes, it's 1080p) up on Superbowl Sunday w...Read more