Category Archives: Entertainment

Double Bill

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Kelson

It’ll never happen, but there needs to be a double-bill concert with the Goo Goo Dolls and Lady Gaga. More likely: Somewhere there must be a mall food court with a Burger King and a Dairy Queen next to each other.

Posted in Humor | Tagged Burger King, Dairy Queen, Goo Goo Dolls, Lady Gaga, Tweets | Leave a comment

Abby Someone…

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Kelson

License plate spotted this morning on the way to work:

ABY NRMAL

Relevant.

Posted in Signs of the Times | Tagged Frankenstein, license plates, Young Frankenstein | Leave a comment

Car Wash Gone Critical

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Kelson

Spotted today in El Segundo, California.

Posted in Signs of the Times | Tagged California, fallout, Fukushima, radiation, signs, weird | Leave a comment

Only the Penitent Man Shall Pass

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Kelson

I’m a little concerned about this walkway. Should I go in?

Posted in Signs of the Times | Tagged Indiana Jones | Leave a comment

What the Hell Happened To Crusade: What the Hell Happened?

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Kelson

I stumbled on “Crusade: What the Hell Happened? vol.1″ (released last August) while packing, and wondered what happened to book 2. Apparently I’m not the only one wondering that, because it turns out that the website just posted an update last week, saying:

Volume 2 is still a work-in-progress. We will send out a news alert the moment it is released.

Now there’s timing!

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Recent Links: Comic Strips, Moon, Hotspot Safety, Flash Forward and More

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Kelson

Comic strips and art:

SMBC: Where does the time go when you play online games?
XKCD: Server Attention Span
The Joy of Tech: The Internet is running out of tubes. (via @brionv)
Classic Spamusement: They hold a whole lot of it. I had no idea….
Bizarro on Facebook slacktivism (at Failblog).

Sci-fi and fantasy:

Keeping Up With the Cardassians. For months, this is what I heard every time someone mentioned the Kardashians. (What can I say? My brain is more attuned to Star Trek than to reality TV.)
Author Robert J. Sawyer answers pointed questions about Flashforward and the TV adaptation, including what went wrong. I have to agree that it was really hurt by focusing too heavily on the conspiracy arc.

Coolness!

Discovery spacewalk seen from the ground (Thierry Legault, of course!)
Majestic Snow Batman towers over Vermont
Ultra hi-res moon. The full-sized image is 24,000 x 24,000 pixels and half a gigabyte!
Flash Coffee is a product tie-in just waiting to happen! (That F’ing Monkey). It would fit right in with the Central City Track Team shirt.

Tech stuff:

Gmail accidentally reset thousands of accounts last month. (They got it back — this is Google after all.) I’ve come to rely heavily on Gmail, but I still keep a local copy of all my email in case something like this happens. (Engadget, via @pobox)
6 ways to use public Wi-Fi hot spots safely (C|NET).
Mobile Content Is Twice as Difficult (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Map of smartphone marketshare by OS & manufacturer. It’s a 3-way split between iPhone, Android and Blackberry. iPhone & Blackberry are of course one manufactuer, while Android is divided mainly among HTC, Samsung and Motorola. (via @androidandme)
Things Real People Don’t Say About Your App or website (via @brionv)

Posted in Comics, Computers/Internet, Space, Web Design | Tagged Android, Batman, coffee, flash, Flash Forward, iPhone, linkblogging, mobile, moon, security, Star Trek, usability | Leave a comment

LOTR Extended on Blu-Ray!

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Kelson

Amazon has started taking pre-orders for The Lord of the Rings (Extended) on Blu-Ray! I didn’t bother with the theatrical editions, partly because we didn’t have an HD-TV at the time, and partly because we both prefer the extended editions (even if they do take 11 hours to get through the whole trilogy).

I jumped at this one, though. Having recently watched Fellowship of the Ring on a big-screen TV on DVD, I could see places where the higher definition would really help. Battle sequences especially.

It’s worth considering that I still haven’t pre-ordered the Star Wars saga on Blu-Ray.