Well, I was watching the start of an episode of “Everybody Hates Chris”. Its the one with the Asteroids game. Well, am I right in seeing the screen display that they showed for a few seconds was actually a raster…
A Scanner Darkly
You generally can’t tell much from a trailer and I am not hopeful of a film translation of yet another PKD (Philip K Dick) book but… I have to say that the trailer looks excellent. I wonder if the actual…
Pink Unicorns and the Goth Orgy
I am sorry, but this is truly abysmal. I have just watched the debut? video by Maria Sernholt, titled “The Way My Heart Goes”. All I can say is wretched. The video does not stick to one metaphor, it starts…
Advice Time Folks
Before Christmas a berk ran into my car with his. He caused damage to two panels on the passenger side. It was his fault, he was coming out of a lane in a car park the wrong way. But, long…
Wow, thats all I can say.
I recently got into using “Second Life”. I won’t say I “Play” it coz it aint really a game. There are no goals, no missions, no baddies (unless you can class the guy with a pushgun I “met” on my…
Thai Food
I was recently back in London. Staying near Earls Court. On my last day of stay, I found a little Thai place that was truely excellent. I had these boned, stuffed chicken legs for starters and followed it up with…
Knives
I am a bit of a foody. Ok, I do, I like my food. Anyway, as a bit of a home cook, I like knives. Not your “Bowie”, gut the elk, disembowl an enemy sort of knife. The joint a…
The IT Crowd
I just watched the first episode of that new C4 sitcom about the IT people. I hope it gets better. I really do. At the moment, while it IS funny, I don’t feel it does much for the plight of…
Brainiac : Science Abuse (Indeed)
I turned on the TV the other day and there was that “Brainiac : Science Abuse” program on. So, I watched it for a bit. It made me angry. That Ain’t science! The investigations where performed really badly. For instance,…
Escape Pod.
Escape Pod is a podcast site for short science fiction stories. Generally about a commute in length. They have some very interesting stories, including a podcast of “CrapHound” by Cory Doctorow. Definitely worth a listen.