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I have, some time ago, noticed that my Lego collection has outgrown the space I allocated for it. It has also outgrown my desire to spend significant amounts of money of them, therefore I have decided to take a break from purchasing anything big and exciting(Still dreaming about the Death Star though). Then, on our family's trip to Michigan, I've noticed a bunch of models that are made out of pressed and engraved tin. I grabbed an X-Wing right away, but then noticed something I wanted for a long time. In my collection of geeky/nerdy shit I don't have a single representative of Star Trek verse. The model itself looks OK, given the material being used to assemble it. There was a lot of frustrating moments in assembly, where alignment could not be achieved. The latching system is so small, that there were instances where I seriously considered a magnifying glass. The end result is also a bit front heavy, making the model topple forward, that is why there is a pen holding i...

I feel that recently I haven't been that interested in science as I used to be. But at the same time I would like to pass on my love of science to my kids. They are assaulted every day with games, videos, and reading that don't give them any clue that the universe is wondrous, and won't wake any kind of curiosity in them. Well, I think, it should start with me. I have decided to forgo reading fiction for now. I have set a goal of going through a bunch of modern science books. Hopefully, after reading all these books, I can talk to my kids about the things I've learned from books, and peak their interest a little bit. It's a slow go, since I don't have a lot of time to read, but any time I can pick up a book it will be a work of non-fiction, and written by a contemporary scientist. So far I have read "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. I did it last year actually, this is what spurned me to read more books of this kind. I have also recen...

I've listened to this song a bunch of times before, but only recently (yesterday) I forced myself to pay attention to the lyrics and realized that it's about Dune. The books easily rank themselves among top 10 for me, and weirdly I liked David Lynch's version every time I watched  it. Here is the song interposed over some of the movie.

Progress is moved by basic human desire to achieve maximum comfort while lounging on the couch. The latest achievement was spurned by our decision to forgo cable or satellite and enjoy internet streaming services sometime ago, which are more than adequate for our TV viewing purposes. It came with a small caveat, my basic need to watch NFL games on Sundays, or Mondays. or Thursdays. We have a roof antenna which I was unable to make use of, for different reasons. Therefore we relied on two indoor UHV/VHF numbers. They worked fairly well, however the selection of channels was limited. Again, we didn't care that much, 90-95% of what we watch is streamed, either through Hulu or Netflix. I was getting excellent reception of FOX, NBC or  ABC, for Sunday or Monday Night games. Until push came to shove. Last weekend's, disappointing i may add, game was translated on CBS. I could not get CBS to work on those in-doors, and I've had enough. Several months ago, during the routin...

And by that I mean garbage. Hello loyal reader. I haven't written since January, but recently I have come upon the idea. We are in the initial pains of a big move. Yes, the Burlak family is moving exactly 8 miles north  to a new house. As we are going through the crap, we've accumulated quite a bit over 8 years at our current residence, I have discovered a treasure trove of old things. This that used to interest me, things I used to collect, some of the things I actually remember bringing over with me from New York and haven't seeing them since. Anyway, my next several posts will have pictures and hopefully memories of some of the things. I know they are worthless, but I don't have the heart to throw it out. Talk to you later.

There has been a lot of posts about apparent writer's block. People moan back and forth about how they promised themselves to write more, and failed to do so. Well, I am not one of them. I've never promised to write more. My writing seems to be in decline for a while now partially due to work-load partially due to general laziness. I stopped caring if I put a post out even once a month. Now I've joined my blogging friends in complaining by writing a whole paragraph about it, I think I might actually have something to say. Not a lot though. New Year came and went. We've had a whole bunch of celebrations. By the way, Cards Against Humanity game is dirty, disgusting and a whole lot of fun, if you are in to the low brow humor. My 37th birthday also came and went. I would like to thank,again, all of those who congratulated me on achieving basically nothing but getting a year closer to retirement. Still it was very nice. Thank you one and all! I got some very nice pre...

Yes, we had one of those. A rare and welcome thing. Me and The Awesome Wife have been working our asses off last couple of months and it was beginning to show.  Three days before we left for vacation I had to go back to Atlanta and spent two days working stopping only to take a piss and munch on a bags of chips. Drugs were not provided by the company. We went to our regular destination in Cancun Mexico, changing only the venue where we stopped. The resort was smaller than the last one we visited, but I think it made it nicer. The ocean was calm for the most part and warm too. We spent a lot of time on the beach, much more than we usually do. I think the water in the pool was actually colder than the ocean, plus the pool itself was pretty boring. The evenings were filled with all sorts of variety shows. Some of them were pretty lame, and yes I can be a snob when being tried to entertain. The inexperience of some of the acts was clearly showing through, still my  usual appro...