Month: April 2007
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Fans of Lore Sjöberg’s, especially the Book of Ratings, should take a look at his latest experiment. I’m a fan. It’s one of the only cases where adding all the new media internet video podcast hoopla actually improves the original material.
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Your papers, please
Apparently, it is possible to be too ignorant of the state’s rights vs. federal rights issue, and too complacent in the idea of a Democratic majority in congress magically making everything better. I was totally ignorant of the RealID Act and that it’d progressed so far. Ars Technica has an article about Real ID and…
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Hellboy + Obakemono = Nerd Bliss
Normally, seeing my favorite things come together three separate times in one week would be downright eerie, but I don’t think Hellboy: Sword of Storms counts. For one thing, it’s old news. It was aired on Cartoon Network back in October, and due to a TiVo mishap, I’m just now catching it on DVD. For…
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A Million Little Pieces
I’ve wasted way too much time today reading the internet hubub about how a webcomic was ripped off by an art thief. Actually, “art thief” isn’t as good a description as “some dude who makes crappy drawings from internet catchphrases and puts them on T-shirts and paintings and has made obscene millions doing so,” but…
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So Like Us
Speaking of set detail and “Battlestar Galactica,” I think I may have uncovered more shocking evidence that the colonists have connections to Earth. This has all happened before, and it will all happen again: Like all of the Battlestars, the Galactica relies on NEC’s Multisync Series for the brightest, sharpest LCD displays in the entire…
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Many anal-retentive Bothans died to bring us this information.
I was just watching a few minutes of the original “Battlestar Galactica” series, and because I’m a nerd, I noticed that the displays and panels in the Vipers were full of English text. Because I’m a really big nerd, I started to wonder what that means in the context of the series as a whole.…
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Idiot Box
Back when I was writing columns for SFist, one of the things I kept harping on was that Apple should make a DVR. If they could do for television what they did for the iPod, that’d be huge, right? An interface for TV as slick as OS X, without as many of the weird limitations…
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Mutual of Omaha’s Annoying Kingdom
I’m sure the San Francisco Animal Control People do a fine job with the fixings and the basic health exams and all that. I just think it’s irresponsible for them to be releasing pets without doing a proper psychological examination first. The problem, see, is that my new cat is batshit insane. There are plenty…
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No Post Left Behind
Even if I weren’t too busy to ramble on at length about TV shows, there’s just not a lot to say about this week’s episode of “Lost.” Just look at the final score: Pro About a minute of marginally interesting character development from Locke Cool, creepy scene with the smoke monster flashing itself at Juliet…
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Two more of my favorite things
The planets must be aligning or something. I saw that two more of my favorite things are coming together: the RiffTrax guys released a track for the pilot episode of “Lost”. I haven’t listened to it yet, but of course I bought it the second I saw it and realized what it was. This RiffTrax…
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A few (well, two) of my favorite things
Matt sent me this link to a really, really well-done fan video. It’s The Walt Disney World Tower of Terror in a Half-Life 2 mod. All it’s missing is the fog in the courtyard and a few of the effects in the ride.
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Sakura to Taiko
Another cherry blossom festival, another reminder that there’s a concert from the SF Taiko Dojo at the Kabuki on Saturday, April 21st. And another reminder that they’re always awesome, and everybody should check it out. The shows at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley for the fall annual festival are usually longer and more spectacular, but here…