Archive for 'Entertainment' Category
A Close Call
28 October 2008Rob was here last week and talked about the possibility of George R.R. Martin not finishing his Ice and Fire series. The other night his office was broken into and a few items were damaged/stolen. He makes it sound like he barely missed an encounter with the thieves. So not only could [...]
iPod
30 September 2008I did something that I used to think I would never do. I bought an iPod. I’ve changed my mind on it at least 3 times in the past couple of days, but I finally placed the order today.
I’ve gotten the idea of getting an mp3 player in my mind several times over [...]
Headcrash
13 September 2008I recently made my way through Headcrash by Bruce Bethke. It was hard with the Olympics and dog stuff and whatever distractions I could come up with. Headcrash is a cyberpunk novel. The author is the person who came up with the term cyberpunk.
The VR elements of this book reminded me of [...]
Goodbye Olympics
22 August 2008For the first week and a half or so of the Olympics I was really into it. Now I’m getting tired of it. I still leave it on in the background, but I’m usually not paying attention to it. Congratulations to all the winners, but I’m ready for you to be off my TV. I [...]
Playing for Keeps: A Superhero Novel
17 August 2008Playing for Keeps: A Superhero Novel was first released in podcast and pdf form on playingforkeepsnovel.com. My first exposure to it was the podcast version, which is read by the author, Mur Lafferty. The paper version was recently released.
PfK is about group of people that are part of the Third Wave of superheroes. [...]
Wheel of Time Movies
13 August 2008So The Wheel of Time is finally being made into movies. This isn’t as exciting to me as it would have been 5 or 6 years ago, but I’m still glad. I think The Eye of the World and the next 1 or 2 should get their own movies, but after that they [...]
The Night Watch
8 August 2008I finally got around to finishing Night Watch a few days ago. I had been interested in it since I saw the movie when it came out on video. I vaguely remembered parts of the movie as I read the book, but I think I’m gonna have to watch it again.
The book is [...]
Crime Still Doesn’t Pay
6 August 2008I got an email about that postal employee who stole one or more of my Gamefly and/or Netflix rentals. She plead guilty to 1 count of Delaying or destruction of mail or newspapers and 3 counts of Theft of mail matter by officer or employee. She’ll be sentenced on September 29 and any [...]
Finding Serenity
11 July 2008I’m still obsessed with Firefly. I recently re-watched the series and then I read Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly. It’s a collection of essays about the show. The book was edited by Jane Espenson, who was a writer on Buffy, Angel, and Firefly and is [...]
Massive Multimedia Update
5 July 2008I remember reading Childhood’s End a while back and getting to the point where humanity didn’t have to work for a lot of and people became absorbers of media. It made me think of how much time I spent watching TV, playing games, listening to podcasts, etc. It’s fun. I can do [...]