What determines the top trucking movies? It has to be great actors, exciting storylines and nonstop action. The following top 10 trucker movies certainly meet all of these criteria! Keep in mind that many iconic trucker movies were made before CPS and EOBRs were prevalent. Their lack of communication and complete disconnection … Continue reading
Anyone who has visited a traditional museum knows the drill—visitors dart around a cavernous building while dodging docents, staring at out-of-context displays and squinting at tiny placards. While some museums still operate on this antiquated model, many others are adopting active, engaging forms of instruction that appeal to a younger, … Continue reading
When classical composer Jerod Tate won a Heartland Regional Emmy award for his documentary, “The Science of Composing,” he dedicated the award to the Chickasaw People. “I would not be who I am without my family and my tribe,” Tate said. It’s no surprise that Tate dedicated the honor to his … Continue reading
One hundred and ten years after debuting, 3D film technology is poised to stick around. While interest in the concept has always been present, only recently has 3D technology become low enough in price that it can be rolled out to consumers via 3D movies and 3D TV. Let’s give a … Continue reading
It may be hard to believe that your little darling is about to graduate from high school and go off to college. After all, it seems like just yesterday you were buying her Barbie dolls, spending hours reading picture books and having tea parties with all of her stuffed animals. … Continue reading
This past Christmas, tech toys seemed to be some of the more popular ones sold. In fact, kids spend, on average, 73 minutes a day playing video games, and this is just one corner of the tech toy marketplace. Parents invested big money into toys with touch screens and learning games this … Continue reading
With 32” LCD TVs going for less than $100 these days and the old-fashioned picture tube models piling up in landfills, one has to start looking at the latest and greatest new television alternative: 3D television, or 3D TV for short. Alternatives Before looking at what 3D TV actually offers, … Continue reading
Have you seen Sony’s line of videos poking fun at people with DSLRs who have, literally, no clue what they are doing? It seems everywhere you go there are people packing huge cameras, lenses and flashes, with little real idea of what they are supposed to do with them. Not … Continue reading
It is getting to that time of year when vendors introduce new machines and start to have sales to grab some of the Christmas buying purchases. For portable computing, one of the newest options this year is a configuration dubbed the Ultrabook. It is still a laptop, but Intel defined … Continue reading
The Gold Rush In 1848, a man named James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in an area where North America meets the Pacific Ocean and the massive California Gold Rush began. The actual near-hysterical search for this precious metal lasted just over a decade during this first episode, but … Continue reading
We’ve all been there: a new video game is being released tomorrow and you need to camp out at the store all night and still have the energy to participate in a marathon gaming session the next day. But then your body does that pesky thing it does every now and then … Continue reading
Many people elect to travel far from home simply to take in sites they have yet to see. While this is a logical enough reason to hit the road, when you travel for this purpose alone you may miss some of the opportunities that travel affords. The next time you … Continue reading
