I actually enjoyed Green Lantern enough to watch it a second time...

Possibly time for an update to this article The Many Genre Roles of Karl Urban, Ranked (gizmodo.com)

My beef with Alien 3 is that is really Alien 2. They get rid of the other surviving characters from Aliens off camera and with minimal impact to the story such that the whole second movie may as well have not happened.

Given that Apollo/Midnighter are Superman/Batman analogs that got shipped, I just can’t see them showing up

It’s not even the first round of layoffs for the year for MSFT.

Fun episode. Great TOS vibe.

I skipped it in the theaters because of the bad reviews but enjoyed it at home when it became available. Time to take another watch, and I suspect enjoy it all over again.

Freedom Force was just too campy for me, the over the top voice acting was right for the aesthetic but just bugged me enough that I couldn’t finish it.

From what I recall the writing is a lot better than some other epic fantasy series of the time (e.g. way better than Sword of Truth), but I got bored after the first 3 or so books (honestly can’t remember how many I read), as they all followed the same basic outline (go get a piece of the McGuffin, much angst on…

Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex by Larry Niven

Clive Owen is awesome though, he was the lead for the video cut scenes for Privateer 2 which had one of the best casts of any video game at the time.

Steven Segal in Executive Decision

Years ago I went on a quest to get an original of the iconic Forbidden Planet poster, but after a bit of scouring ebay etcetera I discovered that the originals were out of my price range. In that process though I came to the realization that the Style A New Hope poster was the equivalent really for my generation and…

I was going through a phase of re-reading fantasy series a while back and after really enjoying another run through Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams, tried to re-read Wizard’s First Rule and found it to be just awful. I think I just couldn’t take it seriously the 2nd time around when the main character is…

“Sator” is also the title of a Dali etching from his “Faust” set. My understanding is the image is Mephistopheles showing Faust all the possible pleasures of the world.

Very much enjoyed Gideon, excited for Harrow

Yep, kids writing the song is absolutely the way it goes, and I am also down with it (becoming a dad to two daughters since the original movies has nothing to do with it, nothing!)

Have you heard of this thing called PowerShell?

I use Mizage Divvy for window management. I find it works better than the Dell software, and allows me to easily hotkey various setups (I have hotkeys for each third of the screen and the left and right two-thirds, use the windows ones for the halves). I like to have my main app occupying either the middle third or…

Dynamo Joe was awesome, I had some Grimjack trades but never knew the connection between the two characters.