Archives for July, 2008

oh damn what?

perchance instead of a umpc i'll just buy the nokia n96 in a few months, and a bluetooth keyboard. and bluetooth headphones. and ...


sporecraft

apparently what i need out of spore is not a full game to plug creatures into, but a town where i can just have creatures ...


dude, i wish i was getting a dell

the dell studio 15 is about three times as powerful as my current pc. it's ridiculous. you can get it with a blu-ray ...


game on

you can read a bit about the production of the footage on wiki/Tr2n. essentially, disney (now more or less run by pixar, lest we ...


re-up

if i renew my verizon contract right now, i can get a smartphone for $50. this is better than what i'd get by switching ...


tr2n

[and it's down...] youtube link via mr. heilemann, crap video taken at nerd prom, full-screen that bastard for full effect. it's a spectacularly bad version, and still, ...


batman and wall:e

best movies of the year? i don't see any upcoming contenders on my list. maybe quantam of solace, but i doubt it'll be ...


bungle day

Future Tents Despite whatever eased into the ether regarding what we’re working on at Bungie, speculative hunches and guesswork certainly don’t tell the full tale. I’d ...


the little death

so i'm inspecting a fascia (bumper cover) that's come in from out of town, looking for damage because the box was kind of trashed. ick, i ...


who watches the watchmen

you do! quickly. before they take it down. [update - 9:24pm] and we're done. no surprise there. (it is, of course, still up. once ...


just a thought

ron moore's serenity, joss whedon's farscape, jj abrams' caprica. or, ron moore presents ds9 stage two: this time i can do whatever the hell i want.


outlander

outlander, wherein an alien bounty hunter recruits eighth century vikings to help him kill a 'dragon'. i'm shocked that this isn't a scifi original, that it ...


the more you know

from wikipedia: Tureaud worked as a bouncer after he returned from the army. It was at this time that he created the persona of "Mr. T." ...


a mission from god

very interesting article in the new yorker about a schism in the evangelical movement. essentially, the hard religious right and their implied and acknowledged marriage to ...


doctor!

to my list of shows not returning until january of next year, at least, add doctor who, which is offline until 2010 on the bbc. ...


make mine meandering

when you get your hours cut from 40 a week to 30, the first thing that goes is the excessive weekly comics budget. i ...


dearth of television

so farscape season one on dvd, both the overpriced original edition, and the more reasonable but still somewhat unreasonable three piece 'starburst' edition, are out ...