Sundries
June 7th, 2009 by Assorter
There have been enough random occurrences and serendipitous discoveries of interesting odds and ends in my life to constitute sufficient content for a blog entry. So here goes!
Tag Archive for 'star trek'
My thoughts on the Star Trek movie
May 17th, 2009 by Assorter
As I am a self-professed Star Trek geek who jumps at every opportunity to rattle off voluminous amounts of Star Trek minutiae, a lot of my friends have been asking me for my thoughts on the new Star Trek movie. So, here are my neatly-arranged and spell-checked thoughts. Warnings: spoilers and excessive geekiness ahead.
Kicks from Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
January 25th, 2009 by Assorter
This weekend, I burst into joyous rapture on two separate occasions listening to two different episodes of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. Impressive, isn’t it?
First. I was listening to the January 18, 2009 podcast, and during the first segment, the caller was given a trivia question about Ricardo Montablan’s unfortunate recent passing. After the caller answered, Peter Sagal launched into his usual background and banter on Montablan and at one point noted that he played…