Doug's Sounding Board

There was bubbling in the paint. Looking on exterminator sites, this is one of the indications of termites. The painter sees no evidence and thinks that it’s from oiled wood (only want to get rid of the oil is to replace the wood). I’ll call for an inspection to see what’s up.

Yesterday we had someone come over to draw up plans for the kitchen and the master bathroom/closet. In a few weeks we’ll get to see what kinds of ideas he has in mind. He thinks it’s a tricky space. I think that’s good because people get more creative when they have restrictions on what they […]

It was a lot of fun having my sister around and I wish she were around more often. Maybe in a few years when she gets to run her own bevmo store she can get them to open one in Santa Cruz.

Well the pressure wash happened on Saturday and today work continues. I expect by the end of the week we’ll have a different looking house. Then we get to move into an RV while the floors are getting done.

So I was digging a hole in the front yard to make a target for the potato bush that I was going to attempt to move (It didn’t work out because of the confined space it was planted in). Tami came out and said “That’s a big-ass hole.” I changed the emphasis slightly to “big […]

Tami and I just went to see this to see Paris Hilton get killed. We ended up seeing a movie that wasn’t nearly as bad as reviews would say. It does take a little while to get started but it’s faily interesting once it gets going. It’s never really scary, just interesting and looks cool. […]

Not the crappy American release, but the real one from Hong Kong. Get it if you can. We decided to stay home and watch a movie and since Tami hadn’t seen this it was the obvious choice even though she doesn’t like kung-fu movies. She thought it was an odd and strangely entertaining movie though […]

I finally got a chance to see this because my sister bought a copy while she’s staying here. I’ll need to see it again too because I was also really tired and dozing on and off throughout. That said, wjhat I saw I thought was quite funny and a good parody of action films and […]

There is an article on creativity in Scientific American Mind about creativity, what it is, how to get it, etc. Well, it indicates that on the cover but hte cover promises way more than it delivers in general. Anyway, it kind of wandered on the creativity subject leaving me feeling that they still didn’t really […]

A few weeks ago in New Scientist there was an article about how they found a brain cell in someone that fired in response to images of Bill Clinton, even drawings of him. This led them to think that this means that brain cells can process much more than previously thought and each cell would […]