It’s always disconcerting when news networks say things like, “With 0% of the ballots reported, it looks like Wisconsin is going to go to Obama.” One of my favorite things to do on election night is surf the different networks the moment they call it, before they’ve had time to polish.  Last night the more […]

Recently, an audio recording was released of Noc, the beluga whale, singing in what is a really close approximation to human sound.   Scientists discovered it when they thought they heard people chattering far away, only to find that the beluga whales can mimic our speech sounds, if not our words. Yet. ~ What does this […]

Hurricanes…  Recession…  Elections… NBC’s mistreatment of Community… Yes, the world is full of strife and mystery.  Fortunately, more and more of us are realizing we need to take a moment and ask: W W S S D ? What Would Sexy Stalin Do? Yes, Sexy Stalin-mania is sweeping the nation!  Because, as Sylvia Plath once […]

Now that Disney has purchased LucasFilm for 4 billion dollars and announced the planning of indefinite new Star Wars installments, everyone’s wondering what they have in mind.  Basing things off of the books that have been written, or will they go in new directions?  Well, in a Byronic Man exclusive, I am pleased to present, […]

Yesterday, you tested your Halloween readiness by trying to identify movie monsters. If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, you may be dangerously unprepared for Halloween, so if you want to take a moment and do that, now would be a good time.  It’s okay, we’ll wait. Hm hm hm… I wonder if we’ll get very […]

The Byronic Girl is two weeks old now.  I, however, am at least 8 years older than when she was born.  Like so many major events in life, having a baby is everything they say it is, and nothing they say it is.  Some reflections, thus far… I’ve always been early to things, to the […]

News Item –  The BBC reported that nuclear physicists in the search for antimatter have had a major breakthrough.  
Scientists at the Switzerland/France CERN particle collider announced the successful capture of an anti-hydrogen atom for almost 16 minutes. Dr. Skeinman: Well, we’ve come close a few times before.  Once we thought we’d captured one, but […]

Many years ago I tried to take a new approach to first dates.  Instead of dancing around the “getting to know you” questions, I tried to come up with some fun questions to just throw right out there.  And, okay, these questions were only field-tested once on an actual “date”, and it was a New-Coke-level […]