There are a gazillion reviews for the latest Star Trek movie out there. Here’s mine.
The place they went that no one had gone before? They made a good prequel. Virtually all revisits of classic things (c.f., the Transformers, George Lucas’ revisits to Star Wars and E.T., Batman) are terrible. This one is the best in a long, long line of movies and TV shows. Read more…
I was just reading “Five Clues That You Are Addicted to Facebook” on cnn.com and it occured to me that Facebook should really be considered in the same light as television. Read more…
There’s huge debate today about the fact that Barack Obama picked Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation. It’s a good thing, but it’s something that we all have to get used to. Read more…
I just finished reading The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. There’s some pretty compelling stuff in there. He hypes up his web site, however, as if there were some über-top secret stuff there that only people who buy the book can get. That’s a load. Beyond that shortcoming, it’s really quite an exciting and potentially life-changing book. Read more…
Paul, over at The Daily Ping, just blogged about flying business class. Nevermind that the title of his post is “Flying First Class.” It prompted me to write the story of the one time I flew Internstional First Class—a league unto itself. Read more…