Spy Kids
On the one hand, Robert Rodriguez wrote and directed Desperado, which I thought was stylish and nicely done. On the...
Author Archive
Stross
I just read Charles Stross's latest tour de force, "Halo," in the June Asimov's. Stross continues to amaze and impress...
Celebraday
Today is Father's Day; it wasn't 'til I read Mary Anne's journal entry today that it quite occurred to me...
Dept. of totally charming
I finally managed to hook up my PowerBook's DVD player to my TV. Works nicely. On the Spy Kids DVD...
Overheard at work
Co-worker 1: I watched [the movie] Airplane last night. Co-worker 2: Yeah, I saw you bought it. Now you can...
Groggy to bed and groggy to rise
I've been groggy all day. Woke up groggy and too early; half-dozed for an hour or so; got up and...
Smog
Yesterday afternoon I took a little time out to run some errands. Missed a meeting at work as a result,...
Hackers help find missing database password
I tend to figure that there must be people other than me who don't read Slashdot regularly but still find...
Used books, big business
I heard about the fuss that the Authors Guild is kicking up about used book sales, but the little that...
TV
Tonight at Ethan's regular TV night, we saw the worst episode yet of Jeremiah, titled "Ring of Fire" or something...
Followup re “people of color”
I asked the other day about the phrase "people of color"; Nick M. (by whose journal I see that the...
Hermetic Newton
Aegypt continues to resonate, months after I read it, with various new things I encounter. Looking for info on Newton,...