I sold candybars to actor George Kennedy

George Kennedy from Airplane!, Dallas and Naked Gun 2 1/2 fame (among lesser-known films) bought chocolate bars from my sister and me. In the 1990s.Yep, I sold my track team's candy bars to actor George Kennedy alongside my little sister.

You don't know him until you seem him, he's the guy who made a serious (failed) movie...then spoofed himself years later. That's cool in my book. (As well as a bunch of other popular stuff.)

My sister and I were -- unbeknown to us at the time -- temporarily living in a fancy neighborhood in the Channel Islands Harbor area of Oxnard, California. Looking back as an adult ... my dad's pretty sweet boat on the dock behind our house should've tipped us off that we weren't living in a normal situation.

But he was our track team coach. And one hell of a crazy-ass coach. In life and track.

Plus, I was from Colorado and my little 'sis was from Texas (we moved a lot.). So we had a motherlode of candy bars to sell to prove our worth to the current team.

So onward we went.

Three blocks and five doors away, a beautiful blonde woman opened the door and just blindly handed us money. I noticed there was a fairly large tree planted in the foyer behind her and thought it was cool. But she

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iPhone 4S Siri answers my absurd questions and likes Star Trek, but not war

If you haven't heard, the iPhone 4S has a talking assistant named Siri. She talks and takes orders like a champ. She's also apparently programmed to handle some pretty random questions with sarcasm, elegance and ease. This makes me have a little crush on the Apple programmers.

I'm an unabashed gadget geek. So, since it was a work holiday, my sister Cayla and I designated Monday as Phone Day. Then we stayed up late into the night asking our iPhone 4S Siri assistants questions.

Absurd questions.

Yes, various folks have tried this since the shiny new phone came out in late 2011, but we wanted to push the envelope, get creative, and ask the anthropomorphized phone software the most random (and pressing) questions possible to, ahem, test its capability.

Not the most efficient use of time, but it was fun.

Following are the results of our useless experiment. All images below are real screenshots of 'conversations'

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