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GEEK SNOBBERY OR MOVIE BUFF SNOBBERY?


• The big news is that Star Wars is going Blu next year, but as I expected, only the Special Edition versions will be represented in the new format. George Lucas has confirmed this, saying that it would just cost too much money to restore the original versions. That's fine, I can save MY money and stick with my ( Read more... )

BEAM ME UP! BEAM ME DOWN!It is sort of built into the speculative fiction aspect of science-fiction that concepts will sometimes date as either technology advances the state of the art or as science abandons certain concepts. On the other hand, sometimes there are moments where that very speculation is spot-on. A famous example was the stir ( Read more... )

I haven't been writing much of late because I've been working on my iPod, going through everything to make sure that there are no more missing tracks (or, harder to distinguish, replacement tracks with reversed right and left stereo channels that came about because somebody - I'm not going to mention who, but he's usually a bit of a stickler for ( Read more... )

While I had made five discs and worked on a sixth over the past month and a half, in each case, I didn't set out to do so, and the same is true here. I wasn't even thinking about making another disc or anything. Then I had an idea... the discs I had been working on all featured big, bombastic music. Even Watch the Skies, which isn't primarily an ( Read more... )

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I wasn't able to get the main task I had set aside for yesterday completed. I meant to go to the DMV, but it turns out to be next to impossible to get to in any sort of reasonable manner from where I live. I'm better off going into one of the Manhattan locations (which suck) or borrow hit one of them on Long Island (which are better, but would ( Read more... )

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Art, Brad, Nate, Russ and I were supposed to get together and play Risk this weekend, but there were too many scheduling conflicts. However, over the course of the week I had started working on this project, which was an idea I had been playing with for many years.


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