Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on September 25th, 2017 in Main 
I have decided, after nine-and-a-half years, to take a semi-permanent break from podcasting. I realize that in the big scheme of things, I am nobody. For me to publicly declare my podcasting retirement is the equivalent of your drunken neighbor shouting from his window at three in the morning that he will never eat at IHOP again. It really means nothing to anybody except for him, and in that same way, maybe this means nothing to anybody except for me. The decision was both easy and hard. It was easy because right now I don’t have enough spare time to… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on September 15th, 2017 in Computers/Tech/GamesMy wife once told me we shouldn’t have a television in our bedroom because Oprah said so. That’s not the real reason. The real reason is because Susan can’t sleep with the television on, and it doesn’t bother me at all. If it were up to me, I’d start a movie every night before bed and fall asleep during the murky middle. If it was a good movie, I’d watch the end the next night. If it wasn’t, I’d start another one. But Oprah didn’t say anything about iPads, so I put one on my nightstand. Except for road trips,… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on September 8th, 2017 in Main 
When Ray Harryhausen passed away in 2013 at the age of 92, I wrote a tribute to the man, his work, and what it meant to me. Ray Harryhausen was a pioneer in the world of stop-motion animation, and I discovered his work at an early age through books and television shows about special effects. If you grew up watching films with stop-motion dinosaurs, giant gorillas, or mythological beasts, chances are you’re already familiar with Harryhausen’s work. If not, here’s a short YouTube clip containing many of the monsters Ray Harryhausen brought to life. Watch this video on YouTube For… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on September 4th, 2017 in MainDavid Lynch and Mark Frost spent the past five months taking viewers back to Twin Peaks, a place that cannot be returned to. After sitting through all 18 episodes of 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, I feel like I know so much more, and so much less, about Twin Peaks. Everything was the same, and everything was different. A dozen questions were answered, and a hundred new ones were posed. Twenty five years ago when Twin Peaks first aired, the question on everybody’s lips was, “Who killed Laura Palmer?” By the end of Twin Peaks: The Return, I was asking… (read more)
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