If you have the means (in this case, 2.3 million dollars), I highly suggest picking one up. Of course… The place is like a museum. It’s very beautiful and very cold, and you’re not allowed to touch anything. The Ferarri’s 11 million extra. Sorry.

I caught the new Star Trek at a matinee after work this week. For the record, I enjoyed it greatly; sets up a whole new paradigm, with plenty of nods (most rather clever) to the series’ 40 year history. I say this as a fully-steeped Trekkie, of course; I’m familiar with the language of the […]

For what was, overall, a lazy, rainy weekend, I’m pretty proud of the things I managed to accomplish. It may not seem like a lot of stuff, but a lot of it is stuff that needed doing that hadn’t yet been done. -♦- I finished doing my taxes. I put them off quite a while […]

I liked it; a lot, actually. Rather few nitpicks, everything pretty much ended up the way it ought to, given the plot points the series set up. The only specific thing I will say, in deference to all those people out there who haven’t caught up yet, is that all these characters ought to have […]

You know what would be a useful special feature for future DVD/Blu-Ray discs of a certain genre? A subtitle track with a running body count. Because as I watched Punisher: War Zone last night, I lost track around the chair-leg to the face during the mob dinner party opening scene. I’d estimate it was around […]

3/11 update – I took the opportunity to re-edit and expand this piece a bit as more occurred to me; also, let me apologize for the obvious headline. However, I feel I deserve at least partial credit for the original latin. I caught a showing of Watchmen this afternoon after work. I almost saw the […]

After a whirlwind couple of days, Colleen and I are finally caught up with first-run Battlestar Galactica. With this development, HUGE swaths of the multiverse of geekdom are once again open to us, for we no longer fear spoilers for episodes we haven’t seen yet. No more scrolling hastily past threads where sensitive plot details […]

Today would have been the day that US analog TV broadcasts shut down in favor of digital, if congress hadn’t passed a last-minute extension to June 12 in hopes of maybe catching a few more stragglers who have been studiously ignoring the constant stream of PSAs for the last two years. Of course, many stations […]

I spent a few days pretty sick this week; not at all fun. My senses of smell and taste were completely hosed; for almost 48 hours, I could only smell ammonia, with alarming acuity; dealing with a potty training infant was not a pleasant thing. I’m still not well, but at least I can taste […]

Other than the fact that another big chunk of my leaves have been relocated to a big pile someplace, our Christmas decorations have been put up (thankfully, they’re quite understated), and my opinion that Heroes season three, now that I’ve caught up with most of it via the roku, isn’t nearly as bad as everyone’s […]