The Mandela Effect and other memories
I find the whole Mandela Effect thing intriguing. (A group of people remembering something that didn't happen.) Here's one I...
Archive for Movies
Arrival
Kam and I saw the movie Arrival on Sunday evening. It was as good as everyone's been saying. I had...
State of the vacation
An update on how my leave has been going: It's been a weird week. I've been mostly getting plenty of...
Lovely short VR video: “Pearl”
A while back, Google created a system for viewing VR/360° videos called “Google Spotlight Stories.” You can view the short...
My favorite movies watched in 2015
In 2015, I watched 63 movies, down from 100+ in 2014. I came very close to completing my rewatching-all-my-old-favorites project,...
The Martian (book and movie)
A few weeks ago, I decided to take a look at the book of The Martian. I hadn't had much...
Life updates
And yet again, two weeks have gone by without a post from me here. What've I been up to? Day...
How to enjoy Terminator Genisys
I saw Terminator Genisys last night. Fortunately, Karen prepped me for it ahead of time, so I thought I'd pass...
Tomorrowland
I just watched the movie Tomorrowland, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more people posting about it. It's the story...
Tech is bad, nature is good
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being...
Good weekend
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
How to write a first act the Pixar way
On the Toy Story 3 extras disc, there's a segment called “Beginnings: Setting a Story in Motion,” in which the...