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Hmmm, it looks like yesterday was a big day for my alma mater. In addition to being featured in the new Knight Rider last night, Stanford was the venue of the prologue in America’s premier bicycle stage race, the Tour of California. Too bad I did not know this yesterday, otherwise I would have watched the live video feeds for that online instead of wasting 15 minutes of my life watching Fox’s NASCAR commentators try to put together coherent sentences while drivers went round ‘n’ round in left-hand ovals. Continue reading »

I have to admit, when I was kid, one of my favorite television shows aside from The A-Team and The Fall Guy was Knight Rider. It only ran for four years (from 1982-1986), but reruns remained popular long after that — something I was reminded of in 2003 when I watched a French-dubbed version in Paris (where the show was called K-2000).

Therefore, when I heard a new made-for-TV Knight Rider movie was coming out, I was pretty excited. Tonight it will be shown on NBC (8:00pm MST). Continue reading »

“Did you see Yahoo’s front page?” wrote my friend Venus yesterday. “There was a story about America’s smartest cities and Fort Collins made the list… not bad at #12. I’m sure they wouldn’t have made the board had you not moved there!”

The last part was pretty funny since I am just a dumdum. But it is true that in this progressive college town there are lots of educated folks. How Fort Collins beat out, say, Berkeley, California, is beyond me, but maybe the latter’s vagrants and panhandlers helped us. :) Continue reading »

A friend of mine, Jonathan, had mentioned that he had found “a form of cross training which brutalizes the body even more than running — ice skating!” This intrigued me enough that I picked up a slightly-used pair of Bauer Air 30 ice skates — courtesy of Craigslist — and went over to City Park and Sheldon Lake in Fort Collins, which has a free, outdoor rink. Continue reading »

Prior to this election year, I have never participated in a caucus because I had formerly always lived in a primary-only state. But it didn’t require prior experience to guess that Democratic turnout this year was unusually high. Indeed, all of us in the gymnasium of Tavelli High School — where my caucus along with several other precincts’ was held — were packed in like sardines. Continue reading »