Welcome to the next Nerd’s Eye View podcast. It includes three stories about home. In the first segment, Julia remembers home with a song. In the second segment, Jesse asks about the words to the Czech national anthem. In the third (read by me) Marilyn talks about finding home in an unexpected place. The music …
Over the last week we’ve had a sad little storm in a tiny teacup. My uke playing brothers and sisters have been duking it out over a message requesting support for the Ukes for Troops program. The problem wasn’t the request for support or the program – I don’t think any of us would argue …
“All other countries have inferior potassium!” Borat’s Khazak compatriots might be dorky, but some of the Americans in this movie, hoo boy. Yikes. I totally get the technique of letting a joke run for a long time, but that doesn’t always mean it works. Maybe we should laugh more at the outrageousness of racism when …
It’s been ages since I’ve had Chinese food, so the steaming veggies and excellent broccoli with garlic at 663 Bistro really hit the spot. A big place with BBQ ducks hanging in the window 663 seems to be quite popular with the hip Chinese kids early in the evening and the not so hip who …
Some time back I bought a tripod for five bucks at a garage sale. It’s quite a good one, it’s the Digi719B from Manfrotto (link goes to updated model). The head is a little odd and I scared the daylights out of myself when I unscrewed it too much and it dropped right off on …
I don’t get out much, and truly, that’s my own damn fault. It’s not that I don’t like to get out, it’s that I’m solar powered and good god, is it dark. I’m content in bed between the flannel sheets with something good to read or an iPod crammed full of vintage radio. I can’t …