I watched Attack of the Clones tonight on FOX. Random thoughts. Damn, that was terrible. What was the story again? Obi-Wan looked positively stupid with longish hair. Has Frank Oz forgotten how to do his Yoda voice? CGI Yoda looked kinda fake. Why the frell didn’t anyone realize that Dooku escaped to Coruscant? Don’t theyContinue reading “On Rewatching Attack of the Clones”
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On Grey's Anatomy
So, I watched the season finale for Grey’s Anatomy. I’d watched the first few episodes, decided that it was derivative crap, and tuned out. But with nothing better to watch, I flipped the television over to ABC and watched. Stupid fun. That’s about the best way to describe the show. It’s not a serious hospitalContinue reading “On Grey's Anatomy”
On Printing
I now have a print.css file for the webpage I’m happy with. It works the way I want it to in IE and Firefox, and about half right in Opera. It turns out that Opera has problems with print.css files, defaulting most of the formatting to the website’s native .css file. Things that IE andContinue reading “On Printing”
On Anakin Skywalker's Parentage
My gut feeling, ever since 1999, is that Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn is Anakin Skywalker’s father. It’s based on two things–Lucas’s long-ago declaration that the six-film Star Wars saga would be about “a father, son, and twins.” The twins are Luke and Leia, the son is Anakin, so who is the father? What pointed meContinue reading “On Anakin Skywalker's Parentage”
On Writing My Senators
Not that it would achieve anything, but I wrote two letters today, one to each of North Carolina’s Senators, asking them to vote against ending unlimited debate and filibuster on judicial nominees, something Republican Trent Lott dubbed “the nuclear option.” Liddy Dole and Richard Burr are, I know, firm votes in favor of scrapping twoContinue reading “On Writing My Senators”
On Crisis
The new Science Fiction Book Club catalog came today. I was flipping through the Altiverse flyer–Altiverse is the comics and media SF flyer–and what I noticed on the cover of the flyer was Superman holding the broken body of Supergirl, one of the seminal images from DC Comics’ 1985 crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths. MyContinue reading “On Crisis”
On Batman Controllers
Woo-hoo! Batman controllers for the Xbox!
On Obscure Searches
Mid-way through the month, and the top search term here is Commander Cody, followed closely behind by Dalek and Kzin. I need to lay off the sci-fi. 😉
On the Beast
No, I’m not talking Milwaukee’s Best, the official alcoholic beverage of the University of Richmond. I’m talking Hank McCoy, the Beast of the X-Men. Kelsey Grammer, of Cheers and Frasier, will portray the Beast in next summer’s X3. At a guess, I would think that the Beast will be done in CG, much as theContinue reading “On the Beast”
On the PlayStation 3
Sony unveiled the PlayStation 3 last night, their latest salvo in the video game wars. The use of the Spider-Man movie font on the system console is kinda cool. The XBox 360 has a plain, Arial-esque font, while the PS2 has that nifty, angular Spider-Man font. I like. 🙂 The initial report says a springContinue reading “On the PlayStation 3”