All Without Popcorn
How have I been spending my vacation? Catching up at the theater. It’s movie roundup time. Does any new movie receive the coveted zero on the Nod-O-Meter…? I love this new rating system of mine (the number of times I caught myself nodding off during the movie – lower numbers are better), since [...]
Somebody Else is Always There First
The other day, while post-Lasikly stuck trying to read something somewhere without my reading glasses, I got to thinking, “Hey, wouldn’t it be nice if someone invented some hinged, folding reading glasses that would be really compact and you could carry around in your pocket at all times for emergencies?” Then I thought I [...]
History Shows Again and Again
My heart goes out to the people around the world who lost loved ones and/or property in the devastating earthquake/tsunamis in Asia and Africa. The force of the earthquake was so strong that it “probably jolted the planet’s rotation” according to scientists. This looks to be the most expensive (in many ways) disaster in [...]
Waiting for the Check
Watching House of Flying Daggers, the latest wuxia (Chinese sword and sorcery) movie to make it over to these shores and play in mainstream theaters with subtitles rather than dubbing, is like eating dinner at a European-style restaurant. You know that after it’s over, you’ll look back fondly on the experience and know that [...]
Digital Time
One of the things I got for Christmas was an Atomic Wall Clock, which keeps perfect time via it’s radio frequency connection with NIST in Ft. Collins. So, do you know where I hung it? In the bathroom. All bathrooms should have clocks, I’ve decided. No more being late to work because [...]
Digital Rain
The first official trailer for the movie based on Frank Miller’s Sin City series of graphic novels has finally hit the net. The trailer makes it clear this is a direct adapation of the books, so it will be interesting to see how it plays with a mainstream audience. The cast list [...]
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