I watched Alien last night and didn’t finish up until after 11pm. My wife is out of town so I have the whole house to myself. Besides being freaked out by the little noises of the house, I spent some time thinking about the movie and something that was a little strange. When Ripley discovers [...]
I’ve been doing more and more PHP development lately. Along with other projects, I’ve been doing some ongoing development for one client and I’ve been having a lot of fun nailing down my personal style, figuring out my personal best practices. I realized recently that I should be looking into object oriented programming, and deciding [...]
Here is a link to a Google Video of an episode of Penn and Teller’s “Bullshit,” illustrating how full of shit PETA is. Some great facts in the video, including… PETA euthanizes over 70% of the animals it takes in to its shelters. PETA (a tax-exempt entity) gave corporate funds in the form of support [...]
I recently sold my Zaurus 6000L so that I could justify purchasing a Nokia 770. While browsing the Nokia 770 Maemo application wishlist I happened to see… …a classic Commodore 64 game: The Sword of Fargoal! Available for download at that link is a modern version of Sword of Fargoal which I just played for [...]
The cast of Batman Begins reads like a “Who’s Who” of great actors that never quite became megastars. Christian Bale did an excellent job as the emaciated lead in The Machinist, and he puts in a great performance as Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins as well, although The Machinist is truly a film where Batman [...]
I haven’t seen it yet, but from what I hear, it’s an enjoyable movie even if you haven’t seen the series on TV/DVD. I personally don’t think it makes any sense to see the one without the other, so I’m going to make a blanket recommendation for everyone: Go rent the Firefly series on DVD [...]
I was reading an interview with Seth MacFarlane over at USNews.com about the TV series Family Guy, and I was excited to learn that they would be covering Intelligent Design in one of the upcoming shows this season. ID has become a hot topic lately, and I won’t bore you with a list of links [...]
There are a lot of things sociologists and psychologists (and psychiatrists, o my!) might have to say about how the internet is developing. Pessimists foretell the end of times, where people stop socializing physically and retreat to computers for a substitute society that they can turn on and off at will. The movie has nothing [...]
Starring Ethan Hawke, Angelina Jolie, and Kiefer Sutherland. “Taking Lives” is a “thriller” about a profiler from D.C. traveling to Montreal, Canada to help the police out on a serial killer case. I don’t want to give too much of the plot away, but Ethan Hawke delivers a decent performance and Kiefer should have been [...]
Science Fiction Dangerous Visions (short stories, series) ::: Edited by Harlan Ellison et al. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ::: Douglas Adams Inherit the Stars ::: James P. Hogan The Diamond Age ::: Neil Stephenson Number of the Beast, Stranger in a Strange Land ::: Robert A. Heinlein Dune (series) ::: Frank Herbert The [...]