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My Dad and his wife came to visit last weekend. With gas prices being so high, I suggested they look into taking the train from Detroit to the Chicago area. The round-trip price per person: $150 USD. That’s on Memorial Day weekend though. I checked the price again this week. The round-trip price per person: $48 (with AAA discount). Click To Read More...

Ok, now that the rest of America has had a chance to watch the Lost finale or is currently watching it, I’ll give my thoughts on this great piece of story-telling. I don’t know about you, but I spent most of the episode literally feeling like anything could happen… and with a big grin on my face for most of the time. BIG BIG Spoiler Alert - please only read on if you watched what happened! Click To Read More...

WOW! Mind… still… reeling…

I kind of chuckled to my wife when Jack made his final telephone call to meet someone at the airport - just how many people turned to each other at that moment in their living rooms with puzzled looks on their faces.

I have to hand it to the writers here - they really caught me off guard. I’m going to be responsible here and not give away anything just yet but I have to say that was probably the most gripping two hours of television I have ever watched.

Take that Heroes!!!

The disappointing season finale of Heroes has made me even more hopeful for the 2 hour Lost season finale tonight, got to try and lower my expectations so I don’t get crushed… Meanwhile, Jess posted this link to an absolutely hilarious visual recap of Lost Season 3 (best viewed if you already know what happened this season).

Ugh, after a pretty strong season of Heroes, the last several episodes have been disappointing me and the season finale continued that trend. More spoilers ahead, please be warned! Click To Read More...

Apparently this month is my month for slacking off in compelling blog content, so continuing in that vein here’s a nice little screencap I took while getting Adobe Reader 8 “rammed” to me (I’m nicking this phrase from Rob). In fairness, installation took “only” about 10 minutes, but that initial figure and progress bar did hang there for several of those minutes, inciting my rage and the pressing of Alt+PrintScreen. 2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM. Thankfully, since that time I’ve got a new laptop that can handle these modern, bloated document readers…

If you haven’t yet watched it, go grab “The Job” from iTunes or whatever. And go catch the first Deleted Scene too. Warning: Mild spoilers ahead. Click To Read More...