In the art world the Renaissance, between the 14th and 17th Centuries, is considered to be the ‘Golden Age’ of art. Art had been part of man’s understanding of the world since cave paintings, but it was during this era that the foundation was laid for the modern art that we have today. In cinema,…
September 8, 2018 we lost a great actor. The first movie that I saw Burt Reynolds in was the classic “Smokey and the Bandit” watching it on HBO at my aunt and uncles house on their NASA sized satellite antenna in 1978. It was a huge event where my Aunt and Uncle invited my Mom,…
When Star Wars was first released in 1977 the populatity of the Space Opera was waning. The genre, which started with the pulp magazines and books of the 1920’s and 30’s, is built around storylines that involve traveling through space and aliens. Before Luke Skywalker met Obiwan, books by Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury captured the imagination of…
I recently wrote about my purchase of an Amazon Fire Stick and finished with how I was going to do a follow up on whats better, the Amazon Fire or the Xiomi Mi Box. Well, I’m not quite ready to do that article yet, but while playing with the Fire Stick I began to realize…
There you go again. You, the Apple rumor mongers. Like a fly to rotting fruit the technology blogosphere and even some reputable publications have jumped on a comment by Tim Cook about hiring tV executives. “As you know, we hired two highly respected television executives last year and they have been here now for several…
