A Phone To Help You … Actually Talk to People
Addictions and hard-to-break habits have been around forever. When I was a kid, for instance, one of the country’s big addiction problems involved that leafy, smoky, monkey-on-your-back called tobacco. My dad—who was at that time a two-pack-a-day smoker—decided one morning that it was time to kick his nasty nicotine need. And I watched with interest […]
Willing Your Digital Domain
At some point or another, just about everybody sits down and starts thinking about a will. If you were suddenly hit by a falling asteroid, who would get your really precious things? You know, those numbered and collectable hand-painted plates your mother sent you every Christmas. Your pristine run of Golden Age X-Men comic books, […]
Why We Love Music From Our Formative Years
I recently went to a pop/rock concert with my youngest daughter and a good time was had by all. The group was OK Go, one of my daughter’s “formative years” favorites and one of the new-ish bands out there whose contemporary pop-rock hooks can keep my toe tapping. After the concert finished and the crowd […]
Reintroducing the 1-Hour Photo … App?
There was a time, not all that long ago, when you had to wait to see a photo you snapped. Now, I know that’s a hard thing to imagine for you young ‘uns who are used to clicking off a handful of pics with your phone and posting them to the Web before you can […]
Not So Weird After All
You’d think that “Weird Al” Yankovic would be so last decade. Or maybe it’s the decade before. Weird Al began his weird career way back in the late 1970s, after all—long before every comedian with a camera phone could post their latest satirical song on YouTube. But even as tech-savvy teeny bops were in the […]
Who’s That Giving Me the Robot Eye?
We humans love our robots. I know I do. Ever since my early years of munching Cheerios and watching The Jetsons, any movie or show that came along packing some kind of independently “thinking” robot instantly captured my attention. Hey, even all the Terminator robots-destroy-the-world pics haven’t put me off my android dreams. Well, it […]
Being Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian has a video game. Yep, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood is a cellphone app game, like Candy Crush or Fruit Ninja, that kids can while away their time on. Oh, and while this little gaming trinket is free to download, it’s on its way to bringing in a reported $200 million ($85 mil of which […]
Facebook’s Deep-Fried Facts
Is there coal tar in your mac & cheese? Arsenic in your breakfast juice? Beaver urine in your raspberry ice cream? There have been stories on the Internet supporting all of the above suggested yuckies and a whole lot more. Does that make you anxious about your food? It does a lot of people. That’s […]
Some Like Their Comedy Too Hot
I’m afraid the American movie house comedy is dead. Or at least it’s seriously limping, holding its side and pushing along an IV drip bag. And I can’t tell you how sad that development makes me. There’s nothing quite like a good rollicking guffaw over a great comic line or a fabulous pratfalling visual in […]
Facebook ’em Danno!
You’ve heard many a discussion about the pros and cons of social media, I’m sure. We’ve hosted a number of conversations on the topic right here on this blog. And words such as “addiction” or “compulsion,” generally rear their heads at some point. I’ve also seen lots of studies on the subject in the course […]