I wish I were an evil genius. My wife says I don’t qualify … on either count. Which is exactly the kind of snippy comment I wouldnât have to tolerate if I were an evil genius. Take a look at a really good, top-level evil genius like Goldfinger or Dr. Drakken or that guy [...]

  If there’s a better way to spend a Saturday morning than hiking halfway up a mountain and crawling into a hole in the ground, I donât know what it is. Honestly. Donât you think if Iâd have had a better idea I would have been doing it? Instead, one recent Saturday found me standing [...]

  Last week I realized that I can spend an entire day on the telephone and never have to speak to an actual human being. Really. After I’d returned a half-dozen voice-mail messages with tag-youâre-it-style replies, I tried calling to check on an order I’d placed and got to play Phone Menu Cryptography. It’s the [...]

  It’s gotten so that I’m afraid to turn on the TV. Every time I do, they’re waiting for me; enticing me with promises of new and interesting relationships, exotic locations, and complicated plots. I’m speaking, of course, of the new Fall TV line-up and I just can’t get involved in another series right now. [...]