O-Dark-Thirty

If you're expecting a long review of the Google Chromecast HDMI , you'll be disappointed. I ordered this from Amazon a few days after it was announced, on July 29.  Immediately they sent me a backorder notification. That didn't disturb me. I knew I missed the very short window after they advertised the device. On August 9 I received a notice that the device would take longer than anticipated. I have to admit my enthusiasm had waned at this point, but I still wanted to take a look at the device and see how it works. After all, it's a geeky toy. Amazon shipped the Google Chromecast HDMI to me on Sept 9 and I received it a few days later. You had to wait more than a month for me to write my review, didn't you? I'm sorry. I thought everyone had one by now. My buddy here at work just asked me what I thought of it, so whoops… Let's review: Easy to set up - absolutely. If the back of your TV doesn't have an open USB port (mine doesn't) y...

I never resolved the issue of my sister-in-law's review of my book . Amazon informed me that she didn't violate their posting guidelines so they wouldn't delete her post. I was welcome to write a comment to her review. It took me about four tries to get one that sounded right. Let's face it - what I really wanted to say was just as mean as what she said about me. Isn't it amazing how we can so easily stoop to poor behavior, yet it takes so much work to do the right thing? It reminds me of an old adage a Pastor once told me. He said that some girls will date a guy that just wasn't nice, saying something like "Well, I can convert him and make him good!" He called it missionary dating, I think. He was an older guy and just smiled when he told me about it. "It never works," he said. "When you put a white glove in mud, the glove gets muddy. The mud never gets 'glovey'." So I worked on my response and finally posted...

Yesterday I logged on to Amazon and looked at my book, My Mother-in-law Misadventures . I don't look at the sales often, because, frankly, I gave the book away to pretty much everyone that asked for one. So sales are not really that good. There might be someone in Alaska who read it; I'm not sure I understand the metrics well enough to tell. What amazed me was that I had a review on Amazon! Woo-hoo! Except it was a single star. "Wow," I thought, "someone really hated my book. I wonder what they thought was so bad about it?" So here's the review, by Toots456: "This man disliked his mother-in-law. He constantly belittled her in life and is trying to make a buck off her death. Guess getting all her money wasn't enough for him. Don't waste your money on his version of reality especially when one considers this was his 3rd or 4th mother-in-law." That was a bit hurtful, but there are really only two people who might write that ...

And, yeah, I like the suit. Spoilers: since I can't seem to figure out how to do those really cool spoiler tags in my blog that other bloggers have, I'm doing it the poor man's way - spoilers are white text on a white background. If you see a gap in the text, it's a spoiler of some sort. Just highlight it to read it. A review First of all, I'm a Superman fan. Let's just get that out of the way right at the beginning. I watched the old black and white versions when I was little. I delighted in the 1978 version with Christopher Reeve (though not much of a fan of Margot Kidder). I don't think I missed an episode of Lois and Clark and I thought that Dean Cain was an excellent Superman (and was a fan of Teri Hatcher). I didn't enjoy Superman Returns at all. I'd like to scrub that one from my mind actually. I'm also a Spiderman fan. The Sam Raimi trilogy for Spiderman violated a Spiderman premise when the webs shot from Peter Parker...

Bioshock Infinite (PS3) It's a game - and it's a story. Having said that, there might be some spoilers here, so be cautious. My two youngest gave me the game for Father's Day (thanks, kids!). As an aside, I might add that I think they should move Father's Day to Saturday morning or Friday night, so we Dads can play with our cool presents all weekend. As it stands I actually took Monday off work and indulged myself in an entire day of playing Bioshock Infinite . Darling was sweet about it, but doesn't see the attraction. What can I say? I am a gamer. It is too bad that I tied up the 52" television all day. It is fantastic that I played on such a large screen, though. I played the game all the way through to the final battle, or what my Dear Daughter read was the final battle, and I failed. At that point I had played over eleven hours on Monday and it was time for bed. I was tired from so much gaming (and had taken a mere 740 steps all day!). ...