Summer 1977, I’m five years old and my Dad takes me to the theater for the single most significant event in cinematic history… Star Wars. There just are not enough words to express the impact that movie had on a young boy in the late 70′s. It was like nothing we had ever seen before. […]
Gaming
Gaming Part II: The PC Years
Enter my first PC. A generic clone PC running a 386DX-40. It was a monster (to me at the time), that could do anything from running Windows 3.1 to connecting to the Internet to Wolfenstein 3D. Wolfenstein was a game-changer, it revolutionized PC gaming in so many ways. Graphics, gameplay design, even the ability to […]
Ramblings
Smart Cars
Okay, so I’m driving to work one morning, and traffic is moving at maybe 20 to 40 miles per hour, accordion fashion. There was this lady behind me in a Lincoln LE that I was half watching in the rear view mirror. She kept swerving back and forth from the left lane (behind me) to […]
Ramblings
The Top 10 Best Albums of All-Time
I’ve been reading through some lists lately and while I can recognize the artistic contributions of the albums that tend to top the “Best of All-Time” lists, they typically are not representative of the ones that I would choose. So with that said, here is my own list of “The Top Ten Best Albums of […]
Movies
Must-See Christmas Movies
It’s that time of year again, it’s getting dark earlier and what can we do with all these extra-long evenings? Watch Christmas movies of course! But with the plethora of holiday cinema to choose from, how do we decide which films are worth our limited viewing time? To aid in this decision, I have […]
Movies
Most Badass Action Movies Ever
Okay, just finished watching The Replacement Killers and was trying to decide if it is in fact one of the best action movies ever made. It is. Off the top of my head, I’ve compiled a semi-short list of what I consider to be some of the most badass action movies of all time. Some […]
Movies
Greatest Films of All-time
So we’re sitting around the office the other day discussing films we like and since I could not agree with somebody else’s assertion that Ghostbusters is the best movie of all time, I figured I’d make my own list. Of course The Godfather Saga as a whole is going to be number 1, the rest […]