A loss that still gets to me, and always will. Glad to have kinda, sorta (stated humbly) known him.

Today's Cryptoquote:

A little bit of light pushes away a lot darkness. Happy Hannukah.

- Your puzzle friends.

I really like that quote.

Happy Hannukah to all!

Been catching up on the latest dvd releases such as Boardwalk IV and The Walking Dead IV, also The Killing 3. The Killing has some plausibility issues and at times I rolled my eyes, but I have to admit it was quite the riveting moment when the detective discovers who the killer is, not even that the...

Haven't paid attention to her in years, realizing in her passing that I have a fondness for her all the same. Remember her as a mainstay on the Tonight Show. Someone suggested to me that she was undergoing an endoscopy (to stretch her esophagus) in a doctor's office and that she wasn't in a hospital...

I don't know if this is a bizarro Utah thing, but if I am waiting to make a left turn and you are making a right turn onto the same road, YOU have the right of way so take it (goddamnit).

Oh, and, Blue, I've got a treat for you. Check it out during daylight hours. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2310931541001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAjP0hvGE~,N-ZbNsw4qBprGx4FBqVjCHKnXz1jxdax&bctid=3427136758001 OR, since tonight I noticed they moved to inauspicious territory: http://link.br...

Gracias, Blue. It's always helpful to know that I am not having a senior or tech-limitation moment.

Okay, so post a photo! Although if that is something people are not comfortable with - like the exploiting of celebrity children - I understand.

Finished Orange is the New Black, season 1 last week. Definitely an interesting character study. A few too many girl on girl face plants for me though. But I guess what are the choices (Pornstache)? I'm highly amused/intrigued by Crazy Eyes and her parents. And Pennsatucky is truly scary/brilliant. ...

Wonderful name. Congratulations again (and to you, especially, Justin). What an awesome event. I am thrilled for all of you. For some reason I didn't catch a photo of the little one, but I did however click on your link, Ron, and was treated to some extraordinary photography. Breathtaking photos tha...

Black Power Mixtape and Hearts and Minds. I gotta say that was really my first exposure to the Panthers and I was born right close to Oaktown during that era. I thought Stokely Carmichael was incredibly outspoken in the truest way. When he was talking about how the U.S. should lose Vietnam and only ...

Congratulation, Ron! I hope the time goes by quickly. A cousin and her husband had their first on April 7 and I got to cuddle and feed her last Saturday and she was so sweet, well tempered and perfectly formed it was a joy to behold. Her hair is reddish blonde and looked like she had stuck her finge...

I don't let myself have too strong of feelings about it. I'm not sure having the museum right where it happened is the best thing. If I was connected intimately with Ground Zero, that is had an intimate perish there, including the clean up workers who died of lung diseases afterward, I don't think I...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wAMr3V5lN4&feature=kp Making jambalaya at the moment for the folks at work tomorrow. Someone sent us a King Cake last month and I put pressure on the baby eater to put out for the holiday. Heh heh. So I thought I should too. I don't usually like jambalaya, but t...

Amazon was generous and sent me the first 4 of Game of Thrones even though my disks didn't get to them until Wednesday. (I was shocked.) I went into Blockbuster last month to rent disk 1 of Season 3 of Sopranos and found, to my dismay, that they were full on going out of business. Not that it's surp...

Big Star. To me captured the essence of the glorious feeling of creating music - it's about the jamming - without totally overdramatizing unique and troubled personalities (which in truth occur across all walks of life from ditch digger to POTUS). I think I've seen all the Magnolia recent documentar...

Okay now this is the loopiest thing I've ever seen published.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/ ... n.html.csp

I will try it, Scott, thanks. The password issue arises because of my infrequent logins to iTunes over the years. I will say I had an issue last fall when I couldn't figure out how to record a CD even after googling instructions - for some reason my brain doesn't jibe well with the interface and it ...

My brothers' Japanese parents-in-law were sued by some Mormons there over repairs to a commercial building in a bad neighborhood the parents had rented for their furniture business. Basically the owners rented out this building and then when the parents tried to leave to go back to Japan, they sued ...

Oh. I was reading a paper copy at work.

It's iTunes that drives me batty. On top of it being very difficult to access my purchases there, or record them or import them to my music library - which I've never figured out - they don't let me reuse passwords so I have to get a new one every time. At least, thank God, they don't ask me 20 ques...

So far, no luck. Shoulda created that password in all caps. Trivial annoyance: Apple makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.

Can admit that I'm off the grid. I get no tv stations whatsoever. No lympics, no news. No nothing. That is not really my choice though. In that HBO show Newsroom they said something about how we (the citizens) owned the airwaves and that I was supposed to get broadcasted programming, but I don't. Ca...

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home3/5757 ... s.html.csp

A legislature that goes out of its way like this is something to behold.

Well, that's annoying. He's not perfect, Walto. He shops at Costco, has a smart phone and his wife has all of the clothes she'll ever need through her old age.