Contributing to global climate change since 1965, Allen believes that you have a Constitutional right to his opinion. A friend of mine pointed me to this account over at CNN (so you know it’s both true and news). Synopsis: Director makes high-budget, low-grade film based on vampire video game. Film critics pan it. Director challenges critics to a fight (in a boxing ring). One critic has the audacity to be shocked when he [...]
I was almost completely unaware of fact that this is “banned book week.” No, seriously! My ignorance of same would have continued had we not visited our local public library on Saturday. They had a “read a banned book” display up and, of course, it was surrounded by curious perverts (enemies of society, really) who [...]
I’ve been watching the reconstituted, digitally enhanced episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series on KPDX-DT and I have to say I’m impressed. Modern computer modeling would have made it possible to change the episodes in significant ways and yet, I think, the producers have shown remarkable restraint. Most of the work has gone into [...]
Sweet, sweet solar power. NASA unrolled these babies today in order to better power the ISS and all of the no science going on there. One day — perhaps in our lifetimes — NASA will figure out how to maintain a crew large enough to do, you know, science on the ISS. My money (if [...]
TT and I are taking a short road trip to visit a friend in Idaho. Along the way we encountered a familiar (at least to me) sight: The Lewis & Clark Memorial Rest Stop. I have to thank those intrepid explorers for their willingness to establish this rest stop all of those years ago. Really, [...]
This might be old news but it seems Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) is getting a CGI facelift. Many of the effects are going to be reworked as was done to episodes IV, V, and VI of Star Wars and E.T. of Spielberg. Purists are going to have space cows over this I’m sure [...]
