Many Firefly fans were not able to purchase tickets for the June 23rd preview screening of Serenity, since they sold out so quickly this morning. A few people bought extra tickets, and a few of those still have unclaimed tickets…
Year: 2005
gone in 180 seconds
At 9:49 AM today, one of my faithful perl scripts emailed me to say that a movietickets.com page had changed– specifically, that a new link had appeared for a 10:00 PM show of “Special Advance Preview” (the not-so-secret code name…
It’s not a tumor.
Texas Instruments is replacing thousands of calculators issued to students in Virginia after a sixth-grader discovered that pressing a certain two keys converts decimals into fractions. That would have given students an unfair advantage on Virginia’s standardized tests, which require…
How the sausage is made
This morning, a Whedonesque.com news item led me to the blog of Doris Egan, television writer and formerly staff on the now-cancelled Tru Calling. Aside from explaining a never-finished arc for that show– which might have been interesting, if they’d…
Six degrees of name-dropping
I’m mentioned in the same sentence as Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Cory Doctorow, by a blogger doing “a mega-meta-review” of the 2005 Hugo nominees (scroll down to Best Novella #4). In your face, Kevin Bacon!
Summer of Sci Fi
Though the current state of genre TV is pretty abysmal, a decent number of science fiction and fantasy films are invading your local cineplex in the coming months. Some of them may even be good. I made a list for…
Headline of the Week
“Bush Anxious to Learn More of Deep Throat”— ABC News Hey kids: Don’t understand why this is funny? Go ask Mom or Dad! They’ll explain it to you!
This past weekend, DeeAnn and I watched 5 episodes of Deadwood (ending with the season 2 finale), and even more time playing video games– Halo (the original, in campaign mode) for me, Sims 2 for her. In those latter endeavors,…
But it’s not benign, either, is it?
“[T]he act underlying the conviction — ‘persuasion’ — is by itself innocuous. Indeed, ‘persuading’ a person ‘to withhold’ testimony from a government proceeding, or government official is not inherently malign. Consider, for instance, a mother who suggests to her son…
photo of the day
From dropthatsock.com: Adding an amusing caption is left as an exercise for the reader.