(Fri, Sep 05, 2008)
- Entertainment Module of the week: MST3K episode 303: Pod People
- News of the week: Laser Weapons! -- where's my blaster?
- Book of the week: The Lies of Locke Lamora, volume one in a fantasy series by new author Scott Lynch. Its characters are flat and uninteresting, its protagonist an unlikable arrogant crybaby, the writing merely serviceable, and the act of reading it unedifying -- but -- BUT -- it was the most entertaining novel I've read in years; impossible to put down. Volume two (of a projected seven volume series) is also available, with volume three due in Feb.
- Cigar of the week: the Cuban Classic by Don Pepin Garcia -- delicious!
- Best Thing of the week: Football season is back! Football!
(Sat, Sep 06, 2008)
Holy crap! It turns out Civ 3 runs in Virtualbox almost perfectly, even sound, even fullscreen. The only issue I've seen is the animations running slowly, and that may be due to the resources I'm giving the can -- otherwise... holy crap!
(Tue, Sep 09, 2008)
One of many forthcoming reviews for Neil Stephenson's Anathem. This one almost makes it sound like Stephenson's Finnegans Wake, or at least his Gravity's Rainbow. Here's another one that likes it less.
(Sun, Sep 14, 2008)
I've got the wide open shock-mouth at the moment. How rarely one feels stunned anymore.... Read.
(Fri, Sep 19, 2008)
See now, this is why people hate hippies. Don't you just want to slap them?
(Mon, Sep 22, 2008)
- Entertainment Module of the fortnight: Monday Night Football: Eagles v. Cowboys -- a fantastic game that didn't end the way it should have
- Shocking News of the fortnight: David Foster Wallace quits It, becomes the Kurt Cobain of Letters
- Book of the fortnight: All the books this fortnight were mediocre
- Cigar of the fortnight: the Nub 466 Habano -- these little guys are chompy (4"x66!) and delicious. The last one I had bonded really well with the scotch I was drinking (Macallan). The Cameroons are also good.
- Best Thing of the fortnight: I finally resolved my plumbing problems; how can a first-world human live without decent plumbing?
- Worst Thing of the fortnight: Financial disaster, the markets wobbling, the nation teetering precariously toward collectivism, and a future in which one of two complete nitwits will don the robes and crown of Lord President (so what's new?). Fie and foo!
(Sat, Sep 27, 2008)
This is lame like Pegleg Jones. I can forgive them for not including any literary SF weapons in this poll (it's a TV channel so they're playing for the LCD here) but how could a list of the most deadly weapons in Science Fiction not include the Wave Motion Gun? In fact, all the weapons here are hand-held. I guarantee I could kill any of them with a single photon torpedo let alone a blast from the WMG (or the Death Star or the Lex etc). I mean shit.