Who watches the Watchmen
UPDATE: Movie vs. book post here. My wife asked me why I was reading a comic book. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is by definition a comic book, and it is much...
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Cell phone recycling
Like most good little geeks, I’ve collected a bunch of electronics over the years, some of which I consider ‘collectors items’. Like most environmental conscious and organized people, my wife is always trying to...
Upgraded to WordPress 2.7
Just upgraded the site all the way from WordPress version 2.1 (yeah, I’ve been busy and procrastinating) to the latest and greatest, 2.7. As I’ve come to expect, compared to most of the software...
bookrev: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams
A large percentage of science fiction writing is tied to some kind of apocalyptic event. And a large portion of the daily news actually portends such an event (for a lighter look, read The...
Mine and my son’s most anticipated movie of 2009
Tony Jaa in Ong Bak 2 After Ong Bak, then The Protector, we’ve been waiting for the next from muay thai martial arts expert Tony Jaa. Already released in December in Thailand, Ong Bak...
bookrev: Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
Two authors named Christopher write not only good plot lines with enjoyable characters but are also able to make me laugh out loud: Christopher Moore (author of Lamb), and Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday,...
Galveston after Ike
My family and I visited Galveston this past weekend, our first sojourn there after Hurricane Ike hit them and us in September. Our plans were to visit the Strand for some shopping, dine at...
book notes: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson #4) by Rick Riordan
Of the three main young adult series I have read (Twilight and Potter being the other two), Riordan’s is faster paced, funnier and brings out more history/mythology than the other two. Very enjoyable and...
book notes: The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson #3) by Rick Riordan
In this third book in the series, Thalia, daughter of Zeus, brought back to health by the Golden Fleece (her essence was put into a tree after she saved Luke and Annabeth, two other...
book notes: The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson #2) by Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters is the second book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. Notes on the first book, The Lightning Thief, can be found here. Notes on the next book in the series,...