While October may be the favorite month of thousands of humans, who excitedly plan their costumes of spooks, vampires and monsters, in anticipation of Halloween, cats, particularly black cats, have little cause for celebration this month.     I am no champion of Feline rights, but you may be interested to know that there are quite a few violent indignities that have been practiced on black cats at this time of year.      In...

     I like to try and keep this blog firmly in the realm of Geekery.  I hope this still fits the bill as it deals with science.  I was bored one day and happened to run accross a virus name that made me do a double-take because I thought there was no way the name could be real.  Well it was real and it made me take some time to find others like it.  Put on your childish man-boy hat and prepare to GIGGLE!  Some of these I was able...

What does it really take these days to be an icon of technology?  Seems like now the flashier a gizmo is or the more expensive it is the more “important” it becomes to main stream techies.  Don’t you think?  We seem to have overlooked some of the most humble of devices in favor of more complicated gadgets. Watches, I mean wrist-watches, are oft overlooked and highly useful tools.  I think we have lost sight of how...

Let me set the stage for you.  It’s Friday night at around 8:50PM I am sitting at one of my favorite eateries, WoW (world of wings) in the providence shopping center with my buddies Jim and Mike.  I am having a beer as we eat hot wings hanging out waiting to hit the theatre to see the Watchmen movie at 10.  Having read the graphic novel, and knowing neither Mike nor Jim either one had read the comics I am ultra excited to see...

The Oscars last night were a JOKE!  I feel they were so out of touch with reality on so many levels.  My friend Mike warned me to stop watching award shows.  Mike I think I will now buddy.  Here are just a few of my gripes this year. I feel some large glaring mistakes were made. First, The Dark Knight SHOULD have been at leastnominated for best pic. Secondly its a shame that Grand Torino wasn’t nominated for anything not even...

I have been standing on a soapbox for years screaming out to all that would listen how stupid it is to live above your means.  Too many of my friends are in over their heads and now that times seem to be getting pretty tough they seem to be cracking under the pressure.  Is it me or did people get dumber last year than in years past? In the world where image means more than integrity I laugh and laugh at all the news stories about people...