Category Archives: Miscellany
Variations on the “Alpha Centauri Effect”
The “star” known most commonly as “Alpha Centauri” is the third brightest star in the night sky. Only it isn’t a star. It’s actually two stars in close proximity to one another. It is their distance from the earth, and their level of brightness that makes them appear to be one star when observed with …
Earth Angel Moments
Remember that part in Back to the Future when that goofy looking bastard with the huge mouth cuts in on George and Lorraine at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance? George begins to walk off, dejected, and Marty begins to fade from existence because this would seem to indicate that his parents will never get together …
Cross Post from Always Off Book: Happy Birthday Shakespeare
This is a first for me, but I am cross posting, or at least cross referencing my latest Always Off Book post here on Too XYZ. I am doing so because I am excited to be a part of a week long blogosphere celebration of William Shakespeare’s birthday. I am quite proud of this post, …
The Deaths of Flip, and the Consumer Spectrum
The Flip Camcorder is dead. Cisco, the parent company that bought Flip a few years ago is shutting it down and stopping all production. Not selling it off. Not trying to improve it. Killing it. Period. As a Flip owner, I am quite pissed. It’s one thing when you happen to use a product that …
Charlie Sheen in Detroit: Did He Bomb, or Did We?
Charlie Sheen’s opening stop for his “Torpedo of Truth” tour in Detroit on Saturday has been almost universally declared a disaster. Late start time, terrible opening act. Incoherent meanderings, pointless video clips. Booing, walk-outs, demands for refunds. He even reminded the increasingly hostile audience at one point that they had agreed to pay money for …
Ty Unglebower 