With the writer’s strike looking to not be resolved any time soon, it looks like my Netflix queue will have a larger-than-normal chunk bitten out of it in the near future.  In a way this is a good thing since, as anyone with kids can attest to, your TV watching time is severely curtailed (not necessarily a bad thing).  We can barely keep up with the shows we watch normally so adding a movie or two to the mix is a luxury sometimes.  Megan and I love movies so the cutback in our normal volume of ones we’d like to see makes our Netflix queue keep on rising like a lump of dough with some out-of-control yeast (Good God, that analogy sucked – see why we need professional writers?).

Note to my newspaper delivery person - when sending out your holiday card solicitation for tips, make sure it’s not the day my paper is sopping wet.  Yes, I’ll tip regardless because that’s what I do, but others might not be so understanding or sympathetic.

There are certain laws of physics that we’ve all come to accept.  Inertia is a good one, unless you’re in a car wreck.  Centrifugal force is one that we love or dread at amusement parks.  If you put a sandwich in a microwave, the bottom slice of bread will always be soggy unless you flip sides right after it comes out.

This is why a relatively new invention h ...

Is there anything handier during a boring meeting than a phone browser right now?  Even though browsing speeds are still rather slow and you won’t get a site’s complete bells and whistles, it still is a great way to avoid eye contact in places like an elevator.  It’s true saving grace arrives in the ability to pass time in tedious meetings where your mind is anywhere but that conference room.  You surreptitiously put it within reading distance and, voila, you are instantly transported from Dull

I doubt Nordstrom’s is high on any guys’ list of stores to go to.  Even though that might be, they moved up a notch in my opinion this week.  I was at the mall on Monday and at each of their areas where there would normally be a display as you’re entering their store, they instead had the following sign.

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OK, English majors, answer this one.  Let’s say a celebrity is being interviewed and one of the questions refers to the interviewee by their full name.  Example – Brad Pitt, being interviewed by one of those artificial celebrity shows is asked the question “So where does Brad Pitt fit into this picture?” or “What does a Brad Pitt do for fun?”  If Brad is referring to himself, obviously it is referred to as speaking in Third Person.  But if the target of the conversation is referred to by their full name, is this considered Third Person also or is it a different ‘Person’ conversation?  &l ...

There are certain things in life where people have almost the exact same word association as you would when you mention a particular item/person/movie.  Not that this happens any more, but 15 years ago if anyone said the name “Clara Peller” you would be obligated to yell “Where’s the beef?!”  If someone mentions the movie Dances With Wolves, I have no choice but to make my index fingers like horns on my head, tilt my ear horizontal to the ground and say “Tatonka”.  Are there any middle aged white guys out there, if someone begins to make that m ...