Use a SQL database or Excel spreadsheet to track ways to teach kids how to do things the old-fashioned way. The world today is moving too fast and the first ones to…
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Buck Rogers in the 19th …er, 25th Century
Let’s start off by acknowledging that Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is a blast. A sleek scifi television show (and close cousin of Battlestar Galactica) riding the wave of Star Wars…
One TV Theme To Rule Them All: Cops and Detectives!
This week is Round 2 of the One TV Theme to Rule Them All polls. We’ve got a police/detective theme this go around. Select the show with the best theme from below….
This May the 4th, Give the Stormtrooper His Due
If you grew up in the 1970s or early 1980s, odds are you at some point dressed as a Stormtrooper for Halloween. You had to, even if you loved the good guys….
One TV Theme To Rule Them All
Television has given us some amazing music and opening imagery over the years. Some of these are so interwoven into our upbringing that we might find ourselves, decades after these shows concluded,…
Sleuth Sunday – Choose the best detective/PI Columbo or Jim Rockford
Today’s poll is a tough one! Columbo and Rockford are both blue collar crime fighters, and both always get their criminal. They may shun the sophistication and fancy clothes of other, perhaps…
Not Politics: Why Rose Tico Should Have Been a Really Cool Character in The Last Jedi
Let’s get a few things straight right now about the much maligned Rose Tico. The character was boring. She added very little to The Last Jedi, and her memorable moments were…
Exposing the Bionic Man, Part 3: The Unspoken Costs
In part one of this series, we discussed the financial costs of the bionic man program started by the US Government during the 1970s. In this, the third in our groundbreaking and…
Not Politics Presents: Poe Dameron: Great character, lousy military leader
Welcome to Damper Three’s new, periodic series Not Politics, where we talk about all things having nothing to do with politics. We’re not saying ignore politics. It’s important, okay? There’s a lot…
Building the Bionic Man: A Look at OSI
Spycraft is of course a dangerous profession. Agents of communism and world domination have prowled the globe, and the United States rose to the threat by investing resources into some pretty cutting…