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Wow. 'Battlestar Galactica' of the Sci Fi Channel, in partnership with Microsoft, will unspool a special two-hour episode of "B...

I just tore through the third season. The storylines -- completely unpredictable. The characters -- deeply flawed, honorable, allowed to sta...

I post this with nervous coughing and several throat clearings. Basically safe for work. Basically. Found on Ace of Spades.

The thought hit me after seeing the Raiders of Red go down like a big thing going down against Colorado on Saturday. Texas Tech football: No...

I feel like ... Ah, what the hell. I feel like any number of fans of several thousand teams who believe that this season, things are going g...

Lajitas was a village next door to Big Bend National Park, until some rich dude decided to buy it in 2000. The guy, one Steve Smith , bought...

I was caught Thursday in the most awesome traffic delay ever. Driving up I-35W on the trip to work. I glanced up and noticed some dots in th...

And a few other notes ... (Warning, lots of spoilers. Also a warning that if you don't watch Friday Night Lights, this first part will b...

About 15 days of posts in a handy condensed version. It's 5 a.m., I'm just going to go through these until Sam wakes up or I finally...

Not that he actually did any walking. Mainly for him it was sleeping and using his diaper. Maybe I should call this, "Sam does everythi...

Haven't had much time to blog lately. Don't have time to post now, only Grandma's demands for more baby pics were starting to bo...

Soon to be making his first Hico appearance: As we've been walking zombies for the past three days, I won't go on long here other t...

We'll be right back. Until then, enjoy our selection of Bollywood.

Watched part two of the latest Ken Burns docu-epic "The Great War." Disappointed. Didn't see the first episode on Sunday. The ...

"Oklahoma State slipped away with a 49-45 shootout victory Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium, leaving Tech winless in its last three tr...

At least for the next week or so. I understand the guy's an A&M grad attending law school at Tech. I can understand the mental state...

Read newspapers enough and you'll begin to notice story patterns. Such as, here we are in the fourth week of the college football season...

It's the song on the little video Ipod commercial that has been playing every NFL commercial break. It's about to drive Meredith ins...

Found out last night that Robert Jordan died. Chances are, if you thought "Lord of the Rings" was lame and can't handle any mo...

How are my animals? Glad you asked. Ginger I worry sometimes how much age is starting to affect the ole girl, who is now about 13. She stum...