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“Congratulations on your upcoming retirement! You have successfully elected to begin your retirement on April 1, 2015.” Of course, I’m not retiring at all. That’s the first paragraph in a packet to release and roll over my paltry pension from … Continue reading →

It’s 3/14/15 9:26:53 (or :54 if you round). Do you know where your geometry teacher is? Bonus math note: A pizza with the radius z and thickness a has the volume pi*z*z*a.

Note: This is long and not related to the primary subjects of this blog. Just something I felt I had to write about. For five years now, most of my TV watching has been done on the computer. Shortly after … Continue reading →

This summer, Iowa State became a 100% Pepsi school with Pepsi products (most notably Gatorade) sold at Jack Trice Stadium and Hilton Coliseum. In keeping with that, ISU women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly, noted for his Diet Coke habit, showed … Continue reading →

Three hundred and sixty-five days from now — to the exact minute of this post — the events of the opening third of “Back to the Future II” take place. Comcast, which owns Universal, would do good to have the … Continue reading →

Effective today, I am working at the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Blogging may be intermittent/sporadic as I get settled in and make sure my Internet works. This is a timed post.

Detouring again… I have toyed with creating a “Things That Make Me Feel Old” category for the blog, and this fits right in along with that: Cumulus has changed multiple stations including KJJY into “Nash Icon,” which “favors country music released … Continue reading →

So, for reasons as yet unexplained, I haven’t had Internet service for two days. (Yesterday’s blog post was a timed one. My connection cut out in mid-draft of tomorrow’s post.) Kids, this is why us oldthinkers DO NOT TRUST THE … Continue reading →

Morrisons celebrate 40th anniversary What, you thought I was talking about Richard Nixon?

(Detouring from highways and Iowa coverage because this is important, darn it.) Michael Bay’s latest salvo in his war on 1980s-early ’90s childhoods hits theaters this weekend. I am old and not in the target demographic anymore, I get that. … Continue reading →