I like Reaper a lot. It’s one of the few TV shows D and I both like enough to pay for (we download all our TV a la carte from iTunes or Amazon). And I appreciate that it’s not to…
Month: April 2009
Friday Flash Fiction: “Customer Surface”
What if there was a store like Fry’s Electronics, only it sold magical implements instead of technological ones? Would cash-poor aspiring wizards still take advantage of the “Fry’s rental plan” (very lenient 30-day return policy)? Would dealing with their low-paid,…
With the Shopping and the Dropping and the Never Stopping
After suffering a variety of unresolved problems with my laptop over the last few months, I will probably never buy a Lenovo machine again. Thinkpads were good, solid hardware when IBM owned the brand, but now they’re living down to…
State of Play
Capsule: a smart, well-paced thriller which also reminds us that, yeah, Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck are good actors, too. D decided we should take Monday off and go see a movie in the afternoon. She gave me a choice…
Nathan Fillion: King of Castle
Castle gets a lot of things wrong. It wildly misrepresents–or, at best, cherry-picks–the experience of being a bestselling novelist or a New York City detective. But damn that smarmy motherfucker Nathan Fillion. He’s just so entertaining to watch. Also, as…
Physics in Action
Well, what do you know? Light does travel faster than sound! http://vimeo.com/4171907 Thanks to the Leverage crew for putting on this Tax Day demonstration in downtown Portland. I much prefer exploding cars to teabaggers. ~CKL
Friday Flash Fiction: “Sam Spayed”
It’s about as bad as you think it is. Read “Sam Spayed” at 512 Words or Fewer ~CKL
Finally, I get to play with the new toy.
The humans brought home this interesting toy a few weeks ago. It’s this little device with a button on it. When a human holds the device in their hand and pushes the button, a little red dot appears wherever they…
Out of work? Start a blog!
This is what my former colleague and IT/security guru Jason Sylvester has done. Is it wrong for me to hope he stays jobless for a while so he’ll blog more? ~CKL