Here’s my first review review. Today I’m reviewing Karl Wells’ review of the Red Pepper, a restaurant where you choose what gets stir-fried.
Mr Wells’ review reads more like a story than a review. He goes into considerable expository for the first half of the review, then settles into a sensible critique near the end. He …
Everyone loves writing about their experiences. That’s why there are so many reviews on the Internets, and why there are so many reviewers. Writing reviews takes no credentials, no experience, and pays nothing. It’s much like sex, unless you’re a prostitute.
Now don’t get me wrong. Some reviews are useful. Take an automobile review, for example. When you’re …
Does Prison Break equal chess? Well, no, since chess is a turn-based game played by two players on a 64-square board, while Prison Break is a weekly drama about prison escapees on the Fox network.
But there are some similarities:
Lincoln Burrows is the King. If he dies, it’s game over.
Michael Schofield is the Queen. He has …
For the past few weeks as my MSN personal message, I’ve been gradually rising up the evolutionary scale. It started off something like this:
Day 1: Organic molecule
Day 2: Amino acid
Day 3: Simple single celled organism
Day 4: Complex single celled organism
Day 5: Algae
And the finished up this past week with this sequence:
Monday: Macaque
Tuesday: Gorilla
Wednesday: Rosie O’Donnell
Thursday: …
Last week, we called the Cat Delivery Service (TM), and had a kitten delivered to our house. Pretty convenient, hey?
We’re thinking about keeping her, as a companion to our existing cat. Now the cats don’t respond when we call their names, so for the sake of clarity, we’ll just refer to them here as Black …