Archive for the ‘entertainment’ Category

Watchmen and the problem with superheroes

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Watchmen will be heading out of theaters soon, leaving on a quieter note than comic fans had hoped.  Its opening weekend, not quiet the number one movie ever, was very impressive.  But it quickly declined, and less than a month after it came out, it still hasn't recouped its filming ...

Battlestar Galactica: A Plan?

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Battlestar Galactica has been a staple in our home since we were blown away by the original miniseries. I still have a Battlestar lunchbox from the original 70s series, now full of plastic green army soldiers, that I've passed on to my five year old. How the old series could ...

Back to the comic book store

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I've been collecting comics books since 1977 when I picked up a movie tie-in for Star Wars at my local Acme supermarket.  I collected random Superman, Hulk, Spiderman, and Captain Marvel (DC) issues that caught my eye (strangely this included a Captain Nazi issue), with no regard whatsoever for story ...

Webcomics Winners

Monday, March 16th, 2009

As a big fan of drawn serials, I've enjoyed the following over the past few years.  Not all are regular series, but I have them in my RSS reader to catch whenever the artists push something new out.  Below are RSS feed links for these sites.  Do you have any ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

This Christmas was filled with all sorts of delights. From good times with family and friends to new XBox 360s, bikes, TVs and laptops. After dealing with the agonizingly inconsistent behavior of our Sony KP-51HW40 for over a year, we finally decided to replace it with a Samsung ...

XBox 360 is Music to Your Ears

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I’ve been running Firefly Mediaserver 2.4 (formerly mt-daapd) and Twonky Musicserver 2.8 for some time now in my home to stream music from my single audio repository to iTunes and my Netgear MP101 players. This past week we picked up an XBox 360 and wanted to take advantage of ...

A Movie Darkly

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

If you’ve read the book, you’ll want to see the movie. In fact, you can see the first 24 minutes of the movie here to get a taste of the surreal feel they use to enhance the story. The innovative “animation” style has spawned a series of articles ...