Given that it's a slow week, and that I'll either be on vacation or traveling on business for the next several weeks, and that it...

It's been a few weeks since we've had an open thread, and the last one was cut short by my mild sniffle exploding into something res...

(*) Photo and subject line are both from "My Favorite Year," which came up briefly during a discussion of geek references at yeste...

So, the open thread idea worked pretty well the last time I tried it, and then press tour got in the way of doing another one. So for the ne...

Since a lot of you were gone for some or all of the stretch from Christmas Eve until now, I thought I'd do a quick run-down of all the p...