For lack of anything insightful...

Some undirected questions and statements:

At what point did the v-neck become a t-shirt and cease to be known as a blouse?

Why don't cell phones come with a standard ring tone that actually sounds like a real phone? Instead we have some sort of quasi-hip-hop mistake blasting form our 2cm speakers. The vibrate function on phones has become a necessity.

Regarding the wine train in Napa Valley: is it really a good idea to pick up a bunch of middle-aged people, give them a ride through the valley, stopping a various wineries to get absolutely besotted (because nature is best viewed with damaged depth perception), then drop the same middle-aged winos back at their cars?

When did the romantic of life of a drifter turn into such a negative thing? As a child, there was a certain freedom related with being a vagabond. Just you, your stick with a bandanna and all your possessions and the open road. . . . Great songs like "King of the Road," "Big Rock Candy Mountains" and, I think, "I've Been Everywhere" all serve to remind us of how delightful it would be to wander the world. Today, street people don't live nearly as glamorous of lives.

I've put a lot of thought into the "Terminator" movie series, and it hurts my brain a little bit each time. Because, if you think about it, the machines will know immediately if something has failed in the past, because their future would already have been changed, and they would therefore be less likely to send back the original terminator to kill Sarah Connor, but if they don't send him (do you assign a machine a gender?) back to kill her, then the resistance never would have sent back John Connor's father, who is actually his descendant (what?). So if you think about it, it's really a vicious circle. This movie really grabs hold of the so-called "Butterfly Effect" theory, in that every single thing about the past can change the future. It is the same with the "Back to the Future" films. Although in that series, fewer people were dispatched via shotgun.

We are a big fan of saying, "These colors don't run." We use that in reference to the flag of the United States, the red, white and blue and that we fight for certain things. However, if the order of the colors is changed slightly, those colors do run. I'm looking at you, France.

You would think that a word like "catamount" would mean something really cool. But it doesn't. At this point, I am giving you the opportunity to find a dictionary.

The highest grain-count I have ever seen in a loaf of bread is seven; breads are very proud when they can call themselves 7-grain. Why doesn't anybody put more grains in though? I have a theory that someone tried to, but the bread exploded from too much grain.

Do you think the pioneers ever dreamed about fabric softener?

I would like to be able to reference "my summer home" in casual conversation someday.

As far as names are concerned, "Sea Lions" and "Manatees" are examples of, respectively, winners and losers.

"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want."

-Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes and a great man.