Having done absolutely nothing last weekend except a bit of spackling and painting - plans for a baseball game and barbecue were canceled due to a death in a friend’s family - it was nice to go out last night and raise the have-a-life quotient ever so slightly. Jamie, Carrie and I went to [...] » Read more

Sorry Mimi, but having taped and fastforwarded through it at high speed, I’m compelled to disagree: Prospero’s Books is just a nauseatingly bad movie. Just to balance the negative comment: Cathy Rogers interviewed on slashdot today - she’s such a (intelligent! insightful! quintessentially British!) babe. Her show Full Metal Challenge rocks too. [...] » Read more

SGI is in terrible shape, any bets on when they’ll finally go the way of webvan? (they died this week). It’s sad, really. At my first job, back in 1995 at the NRC in Ottawa, my desktop machine was a bright purple R4K Indigo, and it opened my sheltered little mind to the world [...] » Read more

With Josie and the Pussycats now in theatres, I was thinking again about live action movie adaptations of comic strips and with the help of IMDB, came up with a list of ones that I’ve either seen, or have read the original comic. Forthwith: Batman: the first two were good, the rest were just [...] » Read more

I am Batman. Tom asserted at work today if you took the sound snippet from the Batman movie where Michael Keaton says “I am Batman”, and played it backwards, it sounds just like - “I am Batman”. An audio palindrome, if you will. Naturally we were skeptical, and so work stopped for the [...] » Read more

Long weekend shot to hell doing not much besides finishing up Chrono Trigger, and watching scifi movies. Tom (Duff) was astounded that I’d never seen Forbidden Planet and proclaimed it to be the best scifi movie ever. Having watched it today I’m not sure that I agree, but it was pretty good. Also [...] » Read more