Author Archives: Allyn

On David Tennant's Newest Film

Doctor Who star David Tennant has a new project–Einstein And Eddington, a BBC/HBO film about Albert Einstein and Arthur Eddington and their investigations of the theory of general relativity. This human story chronicles two men who, during the First World War, refused to accept narrow nationalistic boundaries and, against the odds, continued to strive forContinue reading “On David Tennant's Newest Film”

On an Ironic Bush Statement

Said President Bush while on vacation at his Crawford, Texas ranch: “And they ought to get the job done of passing legislation, as opposed to figuring out how to be actors on the political theater stage.” They, being Congress. Political theater, being investigating Alberto Gonzales and providing oversight of the Justice Department. Hmm, is theContinue reading “On an Ironic Bush Statement”

On Recent Search Phrases

Stat time once more! Here’s a random factoid. In the past two weeks, which is what the server report I pulled this morning covers, twice as many people accessed The World According to Allyn with Windows 3.1 machines as by Amiga machines. I’m just amazed there are people out there, doing the Internet-thing, with WindowsContinue reading “On Recent Search Phrases”

On Being a Beatles Song

Looking for something completely unrelated I stumbled across this quiz. Isn’t Google grand? 🙂 And the questions aren’t obvious. One thing with a lot of these ‘net quizzes is that the questions are rather… limited. You can tell, generally, how your result will turn out. These questions? Completely random. Honestly, they’ve nothing to do withContinue reading “On Being a Beatles Song”

On a Nostalgic Find

In high school I discovered Rogue-like games. Rogue is an old computer game, a text-based dungeon crawl. You create a character, journey down into the underground where you fight all sorts of monsters, find treasure, and… well, I’m not really sure what the point was. Doesn’t matter. In high school the two I enjoyed playingContinue reading “On a Nostalgic Find”

On the "Utopia" Preview

Just recently on the UK talkshow Jonathan Ross a clip was shown of the upcoming Doctor Who episode “Utopia.” At a guess, I’d say this is probably the pre-credits teaser. I won’t post a link to it, if you’ve not seen it, but I found it on YouTube–that’s all I’ll say about that. 😉 SpoilersContinue reading “On the "Utopia" Preview”

On Elijah Wood as Iggy Pop

Elijah Wood will be playing Iggy Pop in a biopic about Iggy’s early career. Wha? 😯 Don’t get me wrong. Elijah Wood has range. He played a disaffected American college dropout turned soccer hooligan in Green Street Hooligans and was incredibly effective in the role. He played a serial killer in Sin City. But IggyContinue reading “On Elijah Wood as Iggy Pop”