The Gulf Didn't Just Fix Itself Overnight

I watched the new Dinner: Impossible on my DVR last night... Chef Robert Irvine (a personal hero of mine, even before this episode) cooked a thank-you dinner for over 1000 Hands On volunteers in Biloxi, Mississippi; despite kitchen and supply problems, he managed to pull it off.

He then purchased furniture for a woman who had been rendered homeless by Hurrican Katrina for the last 2 years and presented her with the key to her brand new house, completely built by the volunteers. It really made me realize that the problems Katrina left in the Gulf Coast haven't gone away, and they really still need help from people like us.

Latest Star Trek Book

I just finished reading Before Dishonor, the latest paperback Star Trek novel involving the Borg (if you haven't figured out that I really like the Borg yet, you really haven't been paying attention)... and I have to say it was pretty good. Not the best Star Trek novel to come out, but definitely worth the read.

Without giving away any of the plot, it DOES bring together the characters Janeway, Seven of Nine, Spock, Picard and the crew of the Enterprise, which I thought was pretty darn nifty.

Countdown to IRON MAN

I'm really looking forward to the big screen adaptation of Iron Man, set to come out May 2 of next year... If history has told us anything, it's that movies based on Marvel Comics are either really really good (see Spiderman) or really REALLY bad (see Daredevil). From what little I've seen so far, this looks like it's going to be a good one...

Of course, scoring alcoholic millionaire actor Robert Downey Jr. to play alcoholic millionaire industrialist Tony Stark has to be the most brilliant stroke of casting this century...

Movie trailer and some pretty cool desktop wallpapers here.

Pigs are Tasty!

Just wanted to give a shout out to Famous Dave's... some of the best barbecue I've had here in the Denver Metro Area. The ribs don't fall off the bone, but are so tender they feel like they should... and the brisket is enough to make you want to slap your mother for having never made it that good.

The beans... the beans require their own paragraph. Rich and smoky, laced with BBQ sauce... the thing that REALLY sets them apart are the little bits of shredded brisket that permeate them. I can and have made a meal out of just the beans...

They're kind of a long haul if you live in the South Metro Area, but are worth every $3.00 gallon of gas you use getting there.

Quick, Somebody Call John Connor

The Earth comes a step closer today to being scoured of human life by Skynet as Toyota announces it has created violin-playing robots. Toyota claims the future harbingers of mankind's destruction were developed "to support people's everyday life."; however, we all know it's just a matter of time now before California's current governor begins attacking women named "Sarah".

Florida Poised To Drop 30 IQ Points

Apparently the next front in the battle to turn America into a nation full of gullible idiots will be fought in Florida, where a group of educators and politicians have decided to pander to the religious right by attempting to overthrow the standards set for science education.

Florida state Board of Education member Donna Callaway states that evolution "should not be taught to the exclusion of other theories of the origin of life," and has proclaimed that she will vote against the standards.

Ms. Callaway has an extensive educational pedigree, which makes me a little upset that she doesn't understand the difference in definitions of the word "theory" when used by scientists as opposed to your typical man on the street.... differences that anyone who was paying attention in science class in junior high is aware of.

America is already slipping behind other countries in education (most notable the Asian countries who refuse to allow religion to dictate their government). This whole country is literally a generation or two away from becoming a Third World nation.