Rogue Trooper here…
…on Giligan’s Island
Continue reading “There’s work to be done”I’m known as Headwind.
In the language of the Dalek homeworld it’s translated as “the oncoming storm.” it can also be paraphrased as “brain fart.”
I’m also known as Jediael, “the Unexpected,” and to cap it all off, I’m the pinch hitter for the Parkway Padres.
Continue reading “Known of God”The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster. It stars Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex-baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team known as the Bears. Alongside Matthau, the film’s cast includes Tatum O’Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, and Alfred W. Lutter. Its score, composed by Jerry Fielding, adapts the principal themes of Bizet‘s opera Carmen.
Released by Paramount Pictures, The Bad News Bears received generally positive reviews. It was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short-lived 1979–80 CBS television series, and a 2005 remake.
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The Parkway Padres are the Bad News Bears of the Apocalypse.

I was the Pinch Hitter for the Parkway Padres.
Continue reading “The Parkway Padres”Elon, stop tampering with AI.
Continue reading “HAL 9000”I think I only dressed up for Halloween one time in the last 35+ years but for some reason I decided that this year was my year.
I got the kernel of the idea with a few items I picked up at Spirit of Halloween, but the idea kept on growing until I had decided to make a Steampunk brass sniper rifle.

It started with a $10 kids gun from Dollar General Store.
I went through the kitchen drawers and unpacked moving boxes to find things to modify it with.

I used odds and ends that I have had for 25 years.
Then it was time to take it apart and paint it.

I was taking this very seriously…

I was really pleased with the final result.