The more and more I think about interstellar distance, the more I'm convinced the only way we'll be able to explore other planets over vast distances is if the human race figures out how to mathamatically fold space, finds stable wormholes, or learns how to harness the power of quantum singularities/black holes ( Read more... )

I watched the first episode of the US version of Shameless last night that aired on the premium cable Showtime channel.

What's the point? Seriously? The original UK show is still going strong after seven seasons. It's a great show. Why remake it? The original is already in English.

I'm sure that Studio Execs, in their infinite wisdom, ( Read more... )

I haven't updated since mid-November. I can't blame Facebook though because I'm hardly ever on there. I'm on twitter more often than Facebook, for sure. I did get a little thrill when I saw LiveJournal on-screen in the movie The Social Network.  Even though I'm not posting as much, I'm still coming in a couple of times a week to keep up on my ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, I was watching The Office on my computer when all of a sudden, I heard a little “pop” and my computer went dead.  Nothing.  No sounds, no fans, nothing.  It wouldn’t turn on.  It was like it was unplugged.

Computer specifics:  I have a mid-2007 24” Intel iMac.  I bought it in July/August of 2007.  I didn’t get the AppleCare ( Read more... )

This past weekend was the ninth annual OmegaCon (and the 8th one I've personally attended).  It was fun as usual but, for some reason, this year seemed to fly by very quickly.  I got there Thursday afternoon and blink and you miss it, it's Sunday and time to go.  I guess that's a good sign.

I only played three games over the course of the weekend, ( Read more... )

Just learned that my place of employment is changing food vendors from Sodexho to a new company on 12/3.  I don’t know the new company’s name yet.  I’m kind of distressed by this in a geeky OCD rain-man sort of way.  I’ve always been a “hot lunch” guy, even in elementary school, and always buy my lunch (never bring it).  I was really happy that ( Read more... )

Not much has been going on. I've scaled back on a lot of things and have more free time now. It's nice not having as many obligations and it's great to have evenings free once again.

I will have OmegaCon meetings every-other-Monday up until the convention in November, but that's okay, not a huge deal and I like helping out. Another nice thing is ( Read more... )

Growing up, I remember when Media Play opened near Northtown in Blaine (suburb just north of Minneapolis for you non-local readers) in the mid 90's. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I first stepped into one. Here was a music store, a movie store, a book store, and a video gaming store under one roof. It was like someone went into my ( Read more... )

Do you look up set lists before concerts or do you like to be surprised?

For me, it depends on how well I know the source material. I’m not a huge Rush fan (they are growing on me), but I’m seeing them tomorrow night at the State Fairgrounds, so I looked up the set list ahead of time to become more familiar with the songs they’ll be playing.

I’m ( Read more... )

Over the past year, spacevlad and I have been watching all of Hayao Miyazaki's films.  He's a very famous writer/director of animated films in Japan.  We kicked off the series by watching Ponyo in theaters in August 2009 and then backtracked to 1979's The Castle of Cagliostro and have been watching them all in release date order since.  We came full circle ( Read more... )