Hi-ho,

Our next taping is Thursday, March 4th at 8:00pm in Mountain View -- ie, the usual day and time, and again you're invited to be in the audience. My guess is that I'll be talking about the Cinequest film festival, going on later this month and in early March.  If you'd like to be in the audience, email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we'll send you the details.

including the much enjoyed "John's Vacation" and "Geek Cred".  Click on the "Shows" menu above.

We tape each episode of Keith Explains on the first Thursday of each month, and so this coming Thursday, January 7th is the first one of the month of this new year, you're all invited to attend and be in the audience for this month's taping.

Show up at the KMVT15 studios by 8:15pm on Thursday, January 7th

If you're expecting to come, please drop me an email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it so we have an idea how many folks to expect. Taping the show usually takes about an hour, so we're usually out of there by 9:30pm, when we go to Coffee Society at the Oakes in Cupertino for the after-party.

Although I probably sound like a broken record saying it, the taping last night went ok.  I'm always pretty hard on myself, and there were a few moments during the show that I knew the thing I was talking about was going nowhere, but in most cases I managed to wrest something out of it before falling too deep into a "not funny" hole.

Topics included the current Tiger Woods accident / affair news explosion, a catch up on my bicycling follies, my experiences with the current home renovations, and a startling announcement about the future of the show.  You'll have to watch to get that last bit.

Happy holidays, all.  See you next time.

My big idea for the September show was that I could talk about health care reform.  Generally, when I try to talk about anything vaguely political the show, well, sucks.  But, I'm also desperate for topics, so...

Folks tell me that the show was pretty good.  Apparently they rather like my ideas on the so called "death panels".  I'm anxiously awaiting a call from the Obama administration now.

The taping last night went well. As usual, I had a bunch of pages of notes of stuff that I though I'd get to, and nonetheless meandered off into a bunch of topics that I hadn't thought much about so I never got back to the last two pages of stuff.

So, you missed me talking about "Watchmen" at lunch with the folks in my group, including someone I'll call "Mark-with-a-K" instead of his real name so that I'm protecting his identity. "Mark-with-a-K" watches a lot of television and movies, because he's single and because nobody loves him, but I suspect that he's also doing other stuff while he's watching them, because his opinion of "Watchmen" was that it totally sucked because it was too slow and not enough stuff happened, while somehow missing entirely the premise of the movie, which is that sometimes the folks that we think are the "good" guys end up, maybe, being the "bad" guys because they're either psychopaths or because they think they're doing the right thing. If you're just watching a movie occasionally, maybe at the same time as you're writing code or cleaning the house, or whatever, you'd miss that bit.

Keith explains current health care reform efforts, and other stuff.

Keith explains the horror and fascination following the death of Michael Jackson, other celebrity deaths, and some other stuff.