Summary: Awesome.

With cameos from just about every major and minor character from the original film, and without leaning so heavily into the original that it can't be its own movie, Afterlife manages to tell a story which is both a continuation and capstone to the 1984 plot while also being a cute little finding-your-place-in-the-world narrative ( Read more... )

Is it cruel to trawl general answer-providing websites looking for obvious cut-n-pasted poetry/prose homework questions with no effort put into any solution prior to dumping it on the site, and post in response beautifully crafted tracts which fulfil the original requirements - but which when decoded by an English teacher translate to "I asked the ( Read more... )

Went along to a product brainstorming workshop where three projects - one of them mine - were taken apart and reconstructed by half a dozen brains operating at once. And given that most of them were either engineers or had a severe engineering bent, the amount of data being generated, calibrated, refined, compared, reworked and cohered per minute ( Read more... )

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Just finished Jasper Fforde's First Among Sequels. I swear, at times it deliberately piles metafictional levels one on top of the other just to see if it can break its readers' brains ( Read more... )

Nothing quite like tinkering with something out of the ordinary - for me, anyway ( Read more... )

Hot damn, I love it when a bunch of DNS tweaking and punching new configurations into three different providers all suddenly comes together and a new hyper-cheapo domain has working email and a (placeholder) website.

Took an hour or so to work out the transformation for a new fancharacter, Tangler. Another triplechanger, as is my wont. G1 Horrorcon, because there were far too few of them in canon and they were (a) pretty awesome, and (b) horribly underused. This one gets to be a mechanical wolf spider and a hypercritical high-atmospheric bomber, something like ( Read more... )

Doctor Who fan comic "The Ten Doctors" is not half bad. Ten Doctors, twice that many companions, more than half a dozen classic villans, and cameos from all kinds of characters out of Who history, and it still manages a fast-paced plot ( Read more... )