Tonight, flipping through my channels, I came across this listing:
Cast your mind to The Road Warrior. Who comes immediately to mind?
I know, I know. It's these two guys, right?
It must be, because they're the ones listed first. Last billing goes to this unknown actor, Melvin Something-or-other…
What ever became of him, anyways?
Or is it Category 7?
Lore does it again:
…the perfect internet celebrity would be a somewhat slow-witted centaur. In a Darth Vader outfit.
I went and saw the new Indy Jones picture-show* tonight, and…
…well…
…it wasn't the film I was hoping for, but I suppose it was the film I was expecting.
Too many knowing nods to the audience; too many hat-related gags, like they're trying to work an entire trilogy's worth into one script; too much of Shia Leboeuf**—who [...]
This may be the nerdiest thing I've written here yet:
I got tuned in to a piece of tech news by a webcomic:
I think now I grok the reasoning behind the large fonts in Web 2.0 applications:
It's so you can still log in even if you're drunk.
I mean, I'm pretty buzzed right now, and I can still sign into tumblr.
I should keep my phone's hands-free speaker away from my credit cards.
So I changed my little blog header the other day, to read "Specializing in treckle lansing disputes". This is, if you don't know, a nod to Vernor Vinge's novel A Fire Upon the Deep, wherein a posting to the Galactic Net (also known as the Net of a Million Lies) from Arbitration Arts Corporation [...]
From the front matter of Steven Brust's Firefly fan-fic(ish) novel (found via Scalzi's Whatever):
For people who care about such things, the book was written in emacs on a box running Mandrake Linux, then I used OpenOffice to format it for printing. The final layout for online publication was created with Microsoft Word and [...]
Ok, so here's the second half of the William Gibson Weekend story. Told as a Thursday Thirteen, because that way I can kill two birds with one stone.
That same night, there was a multi-author reading, titled "Encounters", on the Mainstage. Six authors were on the docket, though one couldn't make it.
Quoting from the [...]
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