Archive for December, 2008

“Valkyrie” was better than I expected

So in addition to all the usual Vegas shows we saw last week, we also went to see a movie one night. Saw Tom Cruise’s new flick, Valkyrie, down at the Neonpolis next to Freemont Street. And I must say it was much better than I was expecting.
I’d heard of course all the […]

US mortgage collapse unseats Belgium government

Amazing how interconnected the world’s economies are nowadays. So interconnected that the mortgage collapse here in the US has unseated the government of Belgium.
Belgium’s Prime Minister recently resigned, and a new Belgium government has just been formed. The old government collapsed amid accusations of interference in the bailout of their largest bank, Fortis. […]

Mystere, Jersey Boys were outstanding; Fab Four Live could use better theater management

We saw three shows during our week-long stay in Vegas last week. Two were excellent, the third was pretty good but marred by really bad theater management.
So the good stuff first: Mystere, the original Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas, remains outstanding. It’s been years since I last saw it, but it is […]

Who knew it could be this cold in Las Vegas?

I’m sitting in the lobby of our hotel here in Vegas, on our last day of this vacation. Checking flight status on the Internet station set up in the lobby. And it’s cold outside, last two days in fact it got below freezing. Now I have been in Vegas this time of […]

President Bush fails again with auto bailout

I guess it shouldn’t really surprise me anymore when President Bush says one thing but does the complete opposite. He always talks about smaller government, yet presided over one of the greatest expansions of the federal bureaucracy in our history. He always talks about fiscal responsibility, and then presided over a doubling of […]

Majel Barrett, R.I.P.

Majel Barrett, who was the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, has passed away. She played a number of roles in the various Star Trek shows, from Nurse Chapel in the original series to Lwaxanna Troi in the Next Generation series. She was also often used as the voice of the Enterprise […]

Snow in Vegas!

Wow, they had several inches of snow in and around Las Vegas yesterday. That’s bizarre, has to be some side effect of global warming somehow.
Anyway, I’m glad they had it this week instead of next. Because I’m going to be in Vegas next week, at least for a few days. Weather.com says […]

I wish the USPS gave more detailed tracking info

I just sold a few things I no longer used on eBay, got a pretty good return on them too. About 75% of what I originally paid which isn’t bad for used electronics type stuff.
So anyway the bidding all ended on Monday night, and everybody paid up through PayPal within an hour of the […]

Worst box office ever for opening weekend

I hadn’t even heard of this movie until maybe last week when I finally saw one ad for it on TV. It’s called Delgo, and it opened this past weekend in 2,160 screens. The movie managed to set one record with that opening: it had the smallest box office gross ever for a […]

Car crash takes out power for 2 hours

Last night around 11 p.m., I was in my living room playing Top Spin 3 on the Wii. Putting a pretty good beat-down on Andy Roddick if I do say so. But unfortunately that game was not saved because I heard a loud bang and then the power went out. Our entire […]