I grew up watching PBS. I loved Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. When I got older, we got cable TV, and I started watching documentaries on the History Channel, A&E, the Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel. These networks had intelligent videos and programming that I just loved. Other people may have found such programming …
Category Archive: Entertainment
Anatomy of a Bad Joke
How does one acquire a sense of humor? A good sense of humor? I’d really like to know. Despite having worked as a standup comedian, I seem to tell some pretty bad jokes. Awful to other people at least. My quips get more groans then laughs, and both my closest friends and family tell me …
The Problem with Casinos
Math. That’s the problem that I have with casinos. Once I realize how badly the odds are stacked against me, it’s hard to have much fun. To me, a slot machine is really just a broken Coke machine. You stick your money in, and nothing else happens. In a modern casino, there are zillions of …
How Mario Got His Mustache
Super Mario Bros. is one of the most successful video game franchises of all time. For people of a certain age, Mario and Luigi are better known than old-school cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny. But the interesting thing about Mario is that he didn’t just jump out of a pipe one day. …
DVD Special Features
DVD’s aren’t as popular as they used to be, but despite competition from online video streams, we still watch a lot of movies on DVD and BluRay. We also watch a lot of DVD Special Features. Back in the glory days of DVD’s (the mid-oughts), I remember standing in Best Buy comparing the list of …

