I had thought it out of my price range, what with all the storm damage we've had to deal with this year, but I see they have day rates. My wife can't make it due to her shooting schedule, but it looks like I will be able to ( Read more... )

[Edit - I forgot to attribute swiping this quiz from irish_horse...]

Your result for The Improved Book Character-Savvy Test...
Wow...

You scored 86% Best Seller, 67% Classic and 88% Fantasy/Sci-Fi!


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wiliqueen and I just finished our annual watching of the 'Doctor Who' 1996 movie (set on New Years 1999-2000). We started that with our video taped copy back on New Years 2000 (with guest deire IIRC). Since then we've managed to actually miss midnight once or twice, but this year we coincided the viewing with midnight Eastern Time almost exactly and saw the ( Read more... )

As I was watching the latest Doctor Who special, I was reminded of the Carpenter film, "Ghosts of Mars'. Seemed to fit - Mars, possession by some sort of awakened former life on the planet ( Read more... )

As some of you may know, wiliqueen has a role in a production of Pride & Prejudice that runs through next weekend.

I've been toying with the idea of attending the Halloween performance dressed as a zombie - I haven't read the recent Pride & Prejudice & Zombies parody, but I like the idea.

Today wiliqueen told me that tickets for the Halloween performance are ( Read more... )

Jones Soda Limited edition Spellcasting Sodas:

Potion of Healing, Dwarven Draught, Sneak Attack, Bigby's Crushing Thirst Destroyer, Ithillid Brain Juice and Eldritch Blast.

I don't know what to think of this yet. I'm still... mulling.

I can see pluses AND minuses for Marvel fans.

So, I figure I should try a replace the power supply before jumping into a new machine. So, anyone have luck getting a PS from a particular vendor? Any mailorder suppliers you trust? It's been YEARS since I shopped for computer parts online, and not since I moved, so I would appreciate any thoughts ( Read more... )

My home computer power supply appears to have died after a late-nite reboot by MicroSoft. So I will not be responding/posting much until this is fixed/replaced. Work computer is not letting me view ANY outside webpages at the moment (usually just webmail is restricted, but I think there are DNS issues today) so even that is out (posting from the ( Read more... )

So, as threatened, I showed up green this past Saturday at Wizard's Chicago Comic Con. Here's an overview.
( First a little explanation as to WHY Brainiac 5. Taken mostly from a previous Friends-Locked post so copied for convenience here. Warning - long. )