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Last night: MirrorMask with Liz, Brian, Marie, and John, a mind-blowing treat somewhere between Labyrinth and The Neverending Story crossed with a Dave McKean visual acid trip. Slightly hackneyed plot, but clever and charming and funny in all the right spots, and absolutely absorbing visually. We followed it with burgers and yummies […]

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It’s funny how much better life is when you have cats pin you down in bed for several days on end. I’m feeling significantly better, and quite thankful to have shaken off the worst of what by all accounts is the Cold From […]

I have occasionally been bored enough or in need of something completely different from my normal mode of being focused on code and servers and misbehaving software. When it gets really bad, I end up staying up too late playing with Photoshop.
A couple months back, I did a few Nausicaa icons; last night I […]

For ages, I have pooh-poohed Joss Whedon’s “Firefly”, thinking it a silly trifle of network TV, the kind of thing that can’t stand up to “real” sci-fi. “It’s no ‘B5′,” said I, despite how my coworkers tried to change my mind. Then the trailer for the movie arrived, and I started to wonder […]

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Friday: Post-launch drinking festivities with co-workers (yay, the new AOL Greetings site is live!) blurred pleasantly into dinner and beverages of various and sundry natures with aquamindy, reasie, oogby, and trenchcloak, followed by a couple of rounds of Apples to Apples back at […]

Weirdly, the most recent iteration of the IMDB Top 100 list is suddenly chock full of stuff that I’ve seen. It leaves me with a strange sense of undeserved success, like I haven’t worked at it enough to deserve the percentage I’ve seen. On the other hand, it makes my to-do list a […]

After an afternoon study break to see The 40-Year-Old Virgin (amusing), we set to the task of cleaning up the yard, so that the overdue lawn mowing might occur. Had lots of little sticks and branches scattered about the back yard, and one skinny branch that was probably eight or nine feet long; those […]

I finished Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones over the weekend. I had picked it up at the Albuquerque airport on a bit of a whim — I was fresh out of reading material, and I recalled that Peter Jackson was going to film it after he got done with King Kong.
The first half of […]

Nothing like being out of town for a week in the middle of a huge and massively stressful work project… The two-day week I had last week before I took off was extremely subdued and care-free (since, of course, I was about to be on vacation for a week). The three-day week this […]

Google Earth (formerly Keyhole) is now free (for the base level of jaw-droppingly great service)!
You need Windows (so I’m out of luck until I get into the office tomorrow), but in the mean time, here’s a great first peek to whet all of our collective geek appetites. Google also provides some great samples for […]