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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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