Push the Right Buttons BOOK RELEASE

Dec 18, 2023 03:17 PM Filed in: Did You Know? | How Things Work | How-to | History

Well I've done it. I said that someday I would write a book, and I have. I now know how rocky the road is for authors. Writing this book has to be the single most difficult thing I've done in my professional life. Producing a documentary comes a close second. At least in that, other people were saying the words. When writing a book, one must come up with all the words by yourself. Read More...

The Sounds of MAS*H

Oct 27, 2023 01:27 PM Filed in: news | Did You Know? | nostalgia

There are sounds unique to both the hit show M*A*S*H and a real MASH unit during the Korean War. Read More...

Strange New Worlds

Jun 12, 2023 10:15 AM Filed in: History | Did You Know?

USS Enterpirse

I'm a self-professed nerd and "Trekkie" so it's hard to contain my excitement with the current resurgence of Star Trek in our living rooms. My earliest memories of Star Trek are from the last season of the original series (that's TOS for you non-Star Trek nerds). During that slow march to the gallows, dimwitted network muckity-mucks sentenced Star Trek to their weakest time slot: Friday nights at 10 PM. The resulting low ratings provided the perfect excuse to torpedo the show they hated and misunderstood. But for a 7 year old who had seen 2001: A Space Odyssey and was witnessing the race to the moon, the move to Friday night was the opportunity to finally watch the show all the other nerds at school were talking about. It was a hard sell to convince my parents to let me stay up that late, but my science fiction loving Mom tipped the scales in my favor.