Can you print – food?

Printing ... food?

Hi-tech presses on in the kitchen?

Like most of my generation who watched "The Jetsons" as a kid, I gobbled up the wonder of push-button food. No prep, no wait, just eat, and off you go. Of course, in the cartoons, Rosie the Robot would do all the requisite cleanup. Okay, mom used to be my robot until I got old enough to be made to understand that to eat, one needed to work. And yet, as a I grew older, watching those golden oldies, I saw Doris Day, a working girl, making use of that handy automat! As the years rolled by, Captain Jean Luc Picard from the U.S.S. Enterprise certainly looked suave ordering his Earl Grey, hot, from a replicator. So why not me?

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Working was subjective. Why should anyone 'have' to prepare their own food. Really!

And yet, as I developed that love-hate addiction to eating without preparing, a part of me knew cooking and, yes, cleaning in one's own kitchen for one's own family carries with it a reward that has everything to do with the time spent doing it ... not the tasks completed by avoiding it.

Unfortunately, with the ongoing press to innovate, asking which came first – the chicken or the egg – may one day meet with a blank stare. Powdered or printed may be the stumper.

Have we gone too far?

Introducing ... The Punisher

Check out this impressive counter to the supposedly fast-fading U.S. Humvee.

Dubbed the FSB (Swat) Batmobile, the Secret Spetsnaz armored battle vehicle ZIL Punisher, hidden for nearly a year, was rolled out for public view and Putin's inspection just last month. But why the wait? Peter Rugg, writing for Inverse.com, suggests that the February release of Putin's "Punisher" may be intended to coincide with Season 2 of Netflix's "Daredevil," due out on March 18, 2016 where the character "Punisher" is going to be heavily featured. Hmmm. Dumb luck or media savvy. You decide.

Whatever the motive, being a bad ass means, in part, looking the part. Feeling the part. Dreaming is step one in making the seemingly fantastic happen, that and making others believe it, too. And while a tricked out exterior may not make the man, as Marilyn Monroe once said about being pretty, it sure helps. And Putin, whether it be hero worthy military machines or personal photo ops, seems bent on making an impact. In our current age of the Obama Nation – a wincing reign of mom jeans and red lines that may as well be invisible – we understand the importance of imagery. Even if the grass isn't greener at all, but merely spray painted to get us over to the other side.

Batman reigns supreme

Who doesn't want to be the Bat?

When my son was a young boy, Superheroes were not just his universe, but the entire universe. "I am Superman; Spiderman; the Hulk; Buzz Lightyear;" and even, "Luciano Pavarotti," began at such an early age, I can barely recall a day when there wasn't a costume laying around the house. Wilted spandex and capes of varying colors always needed mending and, more to the point, a solid scrub. But Batman, the regular guy turned superhero by way of gadgets and old-fashioned ingenuity, was always supreme.

Perhaps Batman represented the most attainable model of someday being "that guy." The chosen one, or rather the one who chose to rush in to save whoever needed saving.

One didn't need to hail from another planet or be bitten or injected to be the Bat. Okay, there was the money factor. Bruce Wayne, thanks to his parent's demise, had no cap on dreaming, taking risks, and access to that endless cache of cash. His mythical resources, much like our human imagination, are as vast as the underground cave where he maintained his alter-ego lair.

Now that I think about it, it's kind of like the imagined magical-bag-o'-money that funds our great United States. With enough brains put to that last fantasy, who knows; maybe we can discover an actual means of creating wealth with no work. Star Trek anyone?

Until then, it is critical to keep our black and white hats and our priorities straight. Putting a dream before reality can sometimes lead to a nightmare. Or, like the upcoming release of Batman vs. Superman, we'll only be battling it out among ourselves to the delight of those who would take advantage of the infighting to press their advantage.

Can mankind fly?

Man may not be able to fly (by themselves), but take a gander at these grown men taking to the air. These two guys aren't waiting to turn superhero to do super fun stuff. Wild hare stuff!

Wow! Just the view I want to have. Watching someone else jump from the plane. I'm so excited it's not me!