Sturgeon’s Law

Ninety per­cent of every­thing is crap.


Derived from a quote by sci­ence fic­tion author Theodore Stur­geon, who once said, “Sure, 90% of sci­ence fic­tion is crud. That’s because 90% of every­thing is crud.” Oddly, when Sturgeon’s Law is cited, the final word is almost invari­ably changed to ‘crap’.

Random Images

Tunnel Sign Vail Pass Rest Area Morgan Cut 2 Lone Mountain

Miles Per Gallon

Fuelly Fuelly

Adios 2011

Pub­lished this year’s “Best Of” page tonight. You can find it over on the left under High­light Reels.

In the begin­ning, ten years ago, this was two dif­fer­ent and sep­a­rate blogs, The Miata Diaries with sto­ries about the car and how it fit into my life and the other, called Brian’s Daily Rant, was a place for me to bitch about what got stuck in my craw each day. There was so much stuff writ­ten dur­ing the year that I had a hard time wean­ing out all the qual­ity posts to get it down to just one best per each month.

Some­where around 5 or 6 years ago I merged the two into this one. The total posts dimin­ished and soon after the cal­iber of con­tent did too. For the last cou­ple of years I have wished I could have cheated and used a sec­ond post from one month to use in the place of another month with noth­ing that I felt qualified.

And as I look back on this year I don’t see very many posts that qual­ify either, mostly they were just just recaps of geo­caching adven­tures or pic­tures of paper­craft projects. In an effort to at least post some­thing when I didn’t feel like writ­ing I would often upload a photo. So for the Best Of 2011 I have used no words, just my best pic­ture from each month.

Memorial Gate

Old US 301

In a Weird Way I Missed Them

Today was the last day of work at the Valve Store™ until next Tues­day because of get­ting a 4 day week­end off for Christ­mas. Every year, as we get to the end of the final work day before this hol­i­day, var­i­ous employ­ees will punch 6 on their phones, acti­vat­ing the pag­ing sys­tem, and broad­cast a loud, “Merry Christ­mas from Line 6″ (or SBSA or Nuclear or whatever.)

I always find these very cringe-worthy and am far from being alone. One notable detrac­tor was our pre­vi­ous Direc­tor of Oper­a­tions, he hated it, but didn’t want to come across as a Scrooge, so he let it go on. Hey, it is only once a year and the hourly Janey Lunch­pails got a kick out of it.

The new Direc­tor started last Octo­ber and he is not so wor­ried about what folks think of him. After he got an ear­ful of all the “Merry Christ­mas froms” last year, he decided that was just not pro­fes­sional and would not be tol­er­ated. There was no offi­cial word that the new Big Cheese didn’t want that to go on any­more, but word did fil­ter down through the ranks somehow.

From 2:30 to 3:30PM today the pag­ing sys­tem was oddly quiet and even though I thought the prac­tice was kinda stu­pid, I missed hear­ing it.

I Dare Anyone

To not enjoy this video and/or not get this song stuck in their head.

The Sweet Smell Of Decay

I haven’t turned all mor­bid, stared tak­ing mor­ti­cian train­ing courses at the local junior col­lege or any­thing, but me merely enjoy­ing the slowly dry­ing out of our real pine wreath hang­ing on the inside of our front door.

Its Begining To Look…

…a lot like Christ­mas. Because the TV air­waves are lit­tered with fra­grance ads.