Ted Williams was a homeless man living in Columbus, Ohio. Hearing his voice is like having melted butter dripped into your ears. He was discovered by a passer-by who tipped off The Columbus Dispatch. They then did a quick interview with him and threw it up on YouTube. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTysXITBCmk 5 million views later and Ted…

If you haven’t yet hooked an antenna up to your HDTV you’re missing out on the purest uncompressed signal that broadcast ATSC has to offer. And of course, it’s all free, recordable, fast-forwardable, DRM-free (for now) content. Some changes happened after New Year’s in the Southern California market that may not interest you…but they interest…

Thanks to Christmas I’m now the proud owner of a Celestron SkyScout. It’s pretty wonderful. The software to update it is lousy, though! Here’s what I’ve found, Internet, because Google was just not helpful at all. The software updater won’t work with any 64 bit version of Windows. Hugely inconvenient! Luckily I had an old…

Performed live on German TV’s “Gala-Abend der Schallplatte” in 1967. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdcMYRhUeA TV used to be so classy.

I’m currently reading The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart. It’s not the kind of book I usually read… It’s turning out to be extremely gory and there are some gut-wrenching scenes of brutality, but there’s just enough interesting things happening in each chapter to keep me reading. Anyway, I wanted to share the cover…

Hilarious. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-8FFOdh5o

The original 8-bit Super Mario Bros turned 25 this year. To celebrate, Nintendo is re-re-re-releasing the old bird in a limited edition manufacturing run of Super Mario Allstars for Wii. Spend some time and be sure to check out the exhaustive guide to SMB glitches, complete with inline illustrative animated GIFs. There’s some tricks in…

Americans are pretty angry about these full-body airport scanners. I’m kind of ambivalent about them. I haven’t been on an airplane in a few years though. Maybe I’d feel differently if I had to go through one. Their effectiveness is debatable because they don’t penetrate skin and, let’s just say it, everybody has a butthole…

Mel Henke was a pretty straight-laced guy.  He was a masterful piano player and earned his living scoring commercials and a few TV series from the late 50s and into the 60s. Most of his studio albums were, to my ears anyway, pretty conventional arrangements of then-current-day hits.  Nothing to write home about. But his…

What I knew: Don’t mix wasabi and soy sauce into some weirdo dipping paste because it’s gross and ruins the fish taste. What I learned: Use your hands to eat anything with rice. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-fYp_N9kX4