Hamilton Champ and Bigger Problems Looming for F1
Lewis Hamilton has once again be crowned F1 champion, this time two races from the end. The competition from Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel just sort of faded away in the second half of the season,...
Author: alex
A Life Without Cars
I was looking at some pictures of New York City today, checking out the tiny Collyer Brothers Park, naked for two brothers who would have been right at home on Hoarders TV show. But...
Discovery Takes Star Trek Franchise Somewhere Else
Last time out I talked about Seth McFarlane’s new series The Orville, which was first out of the blocks in the TV space race for 2017. Second and not far behind comes the new...
TV Back In Space with The Orville
It’s been quite a while since mainstream TV has had space themed show. It’s been a decade since the last, often lamented, Scott Bakula lead Star Trek Enterprise left the air, and there hasn’t...
NASCAR Hits The Wall With a Dull Thud
NASCAR was it. Stock car racing in America hit it’s peak sometime in the 90s, with stars, money, big new tracks, and even it’s own Tom Cruise movie in Days Of Thunder. It was...
Peak Car Theory and the End Of Life Reality
I was musing the other day how much my life has changed in the last half a decade. 5 years ago I was married and I moved to a new city. It’s a city...
Orange Is The New Black Season 5 IMHO
Orange is the New Black (aka OITNB) has been quite the rage. It’s one of the Netflix original series that gives the service some true value above and beyond the Hollywood movies, and this...
My Linksys WRT1900ACS Review
I don’t usually do product reviews, mostly because unlike many reviewers I actually have to pay out of pocket for my stuff so I generally only have stuff to review when I need new...
The Future of Cars and the Coming Electric Crisis
I was reading a story today that Volvo has pretty much said that the “fuel only” car is as dead as a dodo and that by 2019, all of their cars will either be...
My Review of Despicable Me 3
I will admit that I don’t go to a ton of movies, I am not someone who plans to see every new release. But as a father with pre-teen, certain movies are a total...
NASCAR and F1 Have More In Common Than They Would Like
Formula 1 (aka F1, Formula One, the house that Bernie Built) is perhaps the highest of the high end of auto racing. Teams have no limit to the amounts of money they can spend,...
For Elementary Fans Season 6 May Be a Short Farewell
I have been a fan of Elementary since it came to air 5 seasons ago. I like Jonny Lee Miller quite a bit, and I can tolerate Lucy Liu. The show has generally proven...
Grinding To the End of Silicon Valley Season One
As much as I generally don’t like the humor of Mike Judge, I have been told by a number of people that I needed to ignore the first couple of rather lame episodes of...
Fire Colbert and The Strangeness of the Trump Era
This will be a bit of a short story, but I have to say something because I find it pretty offensive. On Stephen Colbert’s late night show monologue on May 2nd, the comedian and...
