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6/1/16

Wind Waker taught me to buy larger memory cards.

4/21/16

Vancouver Island has cities too….

11/19/15

I worry about the day when my Classic gives up. I plug it into a base station, and use it as a home stereo, it fits my 90 GB of music, and the interface is easy to use.

10/9/15

I think the best impulse purchase by cover I've has was a used CD of Philip Glass's Symphony Number 5.

9/18/15

Actually, some Asian guys have first thing in the morning bed head that looks like that - the styling products are needed to get it to lie down.

8/28/15

I think there are several effects at play.

8/27/15

Putting this in relationship terms, the book asks the question "Is it better to be in a bad relationship or to be permanently alone". The movie asks the question "which of these two hunky men will I find true love with".

8/27/15

What about embracing the creative failure method of learning? I get the feeling Ryan is focussing on the end result of being a good player - which definitely includes not dying. But if you're concentrating on not dying, you're naturally going to be repeatedly practicing most cautious and tentative approach.

6/26/15

I can picture Anakin starting out as a idealistic young man who ran away to join the Jedi Knights against the wishes of his family. He trains, and is a brilliant warrior - his friend Obi-Wan is envious of how easily he masters the Force, but tries to suppress the feeling. He slowly slips into vigilantism when…

6/22/15

I think there is definitely an age factor. I read the Narnia, Dark is Rising, and Prydain series as a kid, and I have warm fuzzy feelings and that sense of wonder for them (and have reread them as an adult). Harry Potter I first read as an adult, and I enjoyed it, but not in the same way, and the whiny teenager bits…

6/12/15

My last campaign was a two player urban campaign in Pathfinder, with the players starting out as fifth level mercenaries (a skills rogue, and a sorcerer). It was a nice change from the five player old-school dungeon crawl I had been running prior to that - some theft for hire, a bit of infiltration, ghost busting,…

3/26/15

Parasites lost does a good job of encapsulating the Fry/Leela dynamic. Fry is not a bad guy - he's fun to hang out with, loyal to and accepting of his friends, very good natured, occasionally capable of romantic gestures - and he adores Leela. But he's also irresponsible, impulsive, slobby, lacking in ambition, and…

12/6/13

I have fond memories of Montreal smoked meat sandwiches. And that pub with poutine and an early bird special of $5 pitchers of Guiness (even almost 20 years ago that was a great deal).

11/27/13

Drink! Girls! Arse! Feck!

10/16/13

I can see a couple different options. They're not over the ex yet - either they didn't want to break up in the first place, or they couldn't handle not 'winning' the relationship, or they can't handle someone rejecting them.

9/17/13

Now I feel old. I don't think I've watched any sitcoms regularly *past* the Friends era.

9/14/13

I remember seeing Pinnochio, Cinderella and 101 Dalmations in the theatre as a small kid. I did a quick check, and this looks like it was standard up until the late 80s, starting in the 50s.
By the late 80s, VHS recorders and rentals were becoming fairly common, so that appears to have been the end.

9/13/13

I'm old enough to remember the pre-VHS days when Disney re-released its big movies in the theatre on a 7 year cycle. That rocked - the 7 year timescale was such that you could see them on the big screen for the first time when you were in the right age range, and your parents got the nostalgia kick of seeing movies…

6/23/12

Plus, they're doing essentially a cross species relationship. Star Trek shows these as commonplace, with pretty much any humanoid species free to pair up with any other humanoid species, and produced children, without prejudice or any more cultural clash than you'd get in a cross-cultural human marriage.

6/23/12