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  • Busy Weekend...

    So.Friday, Beth and I and C and J went to Video Games Live, a concert where music from all the game I never played is performed live by a symphony orchestra, along with video displays, interactive contests, and filmed in…

  • Watchmen Trailer

    Well, it's out.You can pretty much map every scene to a panel from the comics...unsurprising from the guy who did 300. But I can't get any hopes up. If they stick to the tone of the comic -- a vicious deconstruction of t…

  • Snarkasm and Spam...

    Somehow, I got subbed to some movie announcement list from Paramount -- probably filled out a form to get access to a Star Trek site.Anyway, got email from them today with the header "The Love Guru is in theatres TODAY!"…

  • Educational Films: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

    Things I Learned From This Movie:1)Boas are surprisingly sturdy.2)Never trust anyone with an English accent...well, that's true for any Lucas film.3)Gunpowder is magnetic.4)Powerful magnets are selective, and only attrac…

  • Educational Films

    Well, I have recently seen Iron Man and Prince Caspian, both of which were excellent films. I have also seen "Aztec Rex", which bore the government-mandated "Sci fi channel original movie" warning label.It was very educa…

  • Kids Love Existentialism!

    Been busy writing/coding. No time to blog. Despite seeing Iron Man. Which rocked. Will post things I learned from it later. Currently over 110K words on Novel, must hit 11.5K today. Yay.In the meanwhile, here's a funny v…

  • Life Continues...

    It's been the usual fun, hectic, week.Saturday, we had a big date -- a trip to Bardstown road, where I controlled my spending, dinner at Sesame Chinese (we wanted to go to Tony Roma's, but it's closed for renovations), a…

  • So, About That Novel You've Been Workin' On...

    Still working on it. :) And that's been pretty much all I've been doing apart from work and scheduled social activity. Well, not quite. Beth and I had a date on Saturday, where we a)went to an all-you-can shovel-down-you…

  • And so, the year winds down...

    Once again, apologies for infrequent blogging. I have been busy with all the usual hullabaloo of this time period -- friends, family, all that rot. I have been very busy with review writing, which would be earning me a p…

  • Things I Learned From Beowulf

    1)The phrase "his heart was in his throat" is very literal when applied to dragons.2)Always bring a longsword. Better still, a polearm.3)The words "written by Neil Gaiman" no longer serve as a guarantee of quality. Indee…

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