Eric pointed out to me last night that it had been a week since my last post, so I thought I'd better bring everyone up to date ( Read more... )

For your reading pleasure.

I heard a few hours ago that Patrick McGoohan had passed away at the age of 80. The Prisoner is one of those shows I've always wanted to see, but have never had the opportunity - I've never heard of it being aired on TV (I'm sure it has been, I've just never heard about it), and the DVD set is awfully expensive. I wonder how he felt about the ( Read more... )

Let me start off by saying - a propos of nothing - that seeing the name of someone one has had a one-night stand with in the newspaper is a bit jarring. Fortunately it was in the Lifestyle section, in an article talking about an office design called hotelling, but still. (I'm just glad I've never worked for a company that did this. Normally I keep ( Read more... )

I'm surprised that I've only seen this twice on my friendslist so far today, and that it wasn't in today's newspaper:

Potential HIV Cure Discovered.

It's still too early to tell, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it works...

(Thanks to esprix and omahastar for posting links.)
On a somewhat lighter note... Space's movie lineup doesn't seem to have ( Read more... )

Some folks might remember Rebecca Eckler, the Globe and Mail "journalist" who snuck into the Hugos pre-party at Torcon 3 in 2003 and proceeded to write a hack piece making fun of science fiction fans?

Well, it seems she's suing Universal Studios, claiming that they ripped off her memoir Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be for the movie ( Read more... )

Courtesy of terri_osborne:

The Starship Enterprise finally has a new captain ( Read more... )

Last week, at the end of the night of bowling, one of our opponents came over and said, "I didn't want to say anything while we were bowling, but you might do better if you stood up a little straighter - you'd get more speed on the ball. Right now your backswing is too short ( Read more... )

Tom Cruise is in negotiations to be in Star Trek XI.Oy ( Read more... )

On the TV behind me, Amanda Tapping is explaining how black holes can be used for converting matter to energy, using tons of technobabble. And it's not even a Stargate episode.

Talk about typecasting.