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1. What’s a place in the U.S. that you want to go but haven’t gotten to yet?

San Diego, La Jolla especially for some nice mellow beach time.

2. What’s a piece of life advice you have been given that you not only have never forgotten, but you share with those younger than you?

At work, keep your head down, do the work, and don’t complain. That will do more to build your brand than any other “hack” you can imagine to get the boss’s attention.

3. What is your favorite word?

Lugubrious.


4. What is your least favorite word?

Commentated. There is no worldly need for that word.

5. What’s the most useless piece of information you’ve memorized?

My childhood home phone number. Some version or other of that number has been stuck in my head since I was 6 years old.

1. What TV show or movie do you vividly remember from your childhood? What TV show or movie do you vividly remember from your childhood?

“Logan’s Run” is based on the hit movie and book. It is kind of in the “brilliant but canceled ” category of late 1970s -1980s cultural television.

2. What’s something older generations did casually that would shock Gen Z or Gen Alpha today?

Restaurants and airplanes had smoking and no-smoking sections, enforced by imaginary boundaries.

3. What album do you consider perfect?

Miles Davis – “Kind Of Blue.” Every note is just perfection.

4. What was the first “adult” movie (meaning not a rated G or PG-13, but rated R movie) you went to by yourself and not with your parents?

Hard to exactly recall, but probably “Porkies.”

5. What temperature do you usually sleep in?

As close to 66° as possible.

The Last Blog Post from Lono

Lono, a frequent commenter on this blog, passed away from Leukemia in March. His celebration of life is tomorrow, and in concert with that, his wife has posted his final blog post, with a brief introduction from me.

Take a read, if you would please.


https://iamcorrect.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/the-final-blog-post/

Random Reddit Roundup

1. What’s something that clearly split your life into “before” and “after”?

I know I may mention it too much, which kind of proves my point. That heart attack. It changed everything.

2. Anyone who played video games between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

Tempest was my sweet spot in high school as a stone cold fav. We had a Tempest arcade game in the lobby of the Safeway I worked at while in high school, and each night when the store closed, and we were off work, we would spend about an hour duking it out in the galaxy of the Tempest world, in vicious shootouts. Such a fond childhood memory.

3. What is the most pretentious book ever written?

Anything by Ayn Rand is so overrated.

4. What’s a noise everyone should be terrified of?

Those one or two seconds of absolute silence before the atomic bomb goes off.

5. What’s your favorite game?

Table top game: Scrabble – Card Game: Pinochle – Video Game (not a big gamer but see above, Tempest.

1. Dogs don’t seem to get tired of barking. What is an equivalent human superpower?

Doom scroll social media

2. Without naming the city where you were born, what is that city famous for?

“Nut Cuttin’ time!”

3. What’s the perfect album opener of all time?

“More Than A Feeling” Boston from “Boston” A fantastic debut.

4. What is the dumbest thing that can be built out of Lego?

Artemis III

5. What smartphones evolve into, or will they disappear?