Just a few random thoughts and what I accomplished tonight:
First, what do I do with my time? I am somewhat addicted to television. I have DirecTV with every channel they offer. I love HD and use a DVR to record the programs I like. I love science fiction but I don’t care for fantasy. 
I spend [...]

Lots of questions this week. Some really long ones too. Let me get started.
Margaret asks:
I came upon your site after seeing the EPIC FU episode you have already mentioned. While the logical part of my brain says that there is no way you are what you claim, I guess it is rather like Disney and [...]

A recent link posted by a reader got me to thinking about language and how it has changed over the years.
I have experienced just over 200 years of progress and have come to believe that not all progress is good. Technology has brought us a standard of living that was undreamed of only a few [...]

I see lots of questions this week and some are getting very interesting…
First, Lunastar asks,
Can you think of any discrepencies between the history you have actually witnessed and the history written in books?
Funny you ask.  History can be very different when witnessed from different points of view. None is actually wrong, just a different perspective. [...]

Before I was turned, I was a carpenter. I helped build the Bank of Louisiana building on Royal street, now the 8th District Police Station.
My work can be seen in many of the oldest buildings in the French Quarter.  The early 1800s were a period of massive growth in New Orleans.  The city burned in [...]