Category: Serenity
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Stanley Cup Finals
As I have mentioned elsewhere, there tends to be two kinds of fans rooting for their favorite team in the playoffs when that team loses. One type hopes the team they lost to wins the Championship The reason is that a case could be made that their team, their favorite team, which lost to the…
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Batman v Superman – My Thoughts
Since I wrote about the fact that I was going to see Batman v Superman on Sunday, a few people (to my amazement) actually asked what I thought about it. And since anytime I can talk about something that does not tie directly to the 2016 Presidential race is a happy place for me, I…
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Firefly Is Everywhere
Some blog posts I write are actually written hoping someone will read them, in particular when I discuss technology or sometimes political topics. Some blog posts are random musings on some aspect of entertainment and while I am unsure as to whether I add serious value to the public square they are least are comprehensible. Some blog…
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What I Learned From My Birthday This Year
As many of you know my birthday was earlier this week. Most of the day of my birthday I spent working on responding to discussion posts and grading midterm papers for the graduate class I teach at the University of Maryland University College. During the day I talked to my two wonderful daughters. I spent…
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Still More Proof That the Bob Newhart Finale Was the Best Ever
So last night was the finale to the TV show, How I Met Your Mother. As some of you know I only on a regular basis watch four TV ‘shows’ on a regular basis: Hockey games Baseball games (and wasn’t the Nationals season opener something) The Big Bang Theory (as I tell people I was not…
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Follow Your Passion
I have learned over the years that doing things that you are passionate about is very important. This was brought home to me earlier this week when I had lunch with a long-time friend of mine who I worked with during my time at Sun Microsystems. We were comparing job experiences and she remarked that…
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The Big Bang Theory Hearts Firefly
For those who knew me when I was the CIO at the US Department of Transportation, you will know that I held a monthly lunch with a small band of fans of both the TV show Firefly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series), and the movie Serenity, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/serenity/. For references to this, see the end of the interview I gave…
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Serenity On The Yangtze
For those who have come in late to the story, I am a member of what some might call a cult that worships Firefly and Serenity. Firefly was a TV show created by Joss Whedon, who among other things was the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which lasted less than one season. It was…