One of the more interesting things swirling in the wake of the Iron Man 2 pre-release hype is the resurgence of rumors regarding the Del Toro/Gaiman Doctor Strange film collaboration. Also, while I haven’t been able to source it anywhere besides some AICN commenters, there are rumblings about this being a full-on Defenders film, with […]

I don’t feel especially guilty spending part of my tax return on a huge HDTV (at a fraction of the price listed on the link; I’m not stupid) and turning my living room, which also got a refresher with some paint and new shelves which really opens up the space, into a screening room to […]

Just because I wax philosophic sometimes doesn’t mean that I can’t revel in the completely frivilous sometimes. For example, after reading a couple of reviews from Iron Man 2 press screenings, I’m getting a little more excited than what is probably appropriate for the release, particularly based on the hints of the post credits stinger […]

Like most sci-fi types out there, I’ve been deriving quite a bit of enjoyment out of the new season of Doctor Who with Doctor number eleven, Matt Smith. And now that the States have caught up with the UK and the premeire episode, “The Eleventh Hour,” has officially aired over here, we can talk about […]

‘Twas a weekend, I guess. Notable, for one or two things at least. First, we took in a ball game, watching the new minor league team in town, the Flying Squirrels, defeat the Reading Phillies 2-1 on Friday night. There’s a contradition that I don’t quite understand at work here: I’m bored to tears watching […]

As I’d mentioned previously, and did a bit of twittering about in theater, the family spent the weekend at ravencon, which politely decided to set itself up about 20 minutes from my front door this year. This was the first year doing the whole weekend (last year, we did a spur-of-the-moment Friday night drop-in), so […]

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn Here’s the latest neat little bit of Colleen’s crafting; a crochet Cthulhu! Who’d have thought the Great Old Ones were so cuddly?

The whole household is terribly excited about this weekend’s RavenCon coming to town; three days of hanging out with like-minded science fiction and fantasy fans, playing games, meeting authors and creators, and generally discovering new things to get excited about. This morning I got the email confirming our registration, and late last week the schedule […]

TheRAM arrived today; just swapped it out with the old chips. Twice as much, and a much faster transfer rate. I think my login time (password to desktop) is down under 10 seconds now; boot-up is under half-a-minute. I just opened up an 800 line openoffice spreadsheet in like four seconds…seriously, this thing is flying […]

I spent the evening on phase one of my campaign to make a few cheap tweaks to the laptop so I can keep it going another couple of years, dropping in a new, huge hard drive, installing Ubuntu 10.4 beta 1, and re-loading all my important old data (cheap usb hard drive enclosures are a […]