I woke this morning from a dream that I was a World of Warcraft Paladin floating in space, safely enclosed in my bubble, watching the heat death of the universe take place. All you could see was dying stars, their last energies output as light, illuminating me and all the…
Annette gently woke me around lunchtime today (I tend to use weekends as a chance to catch up with my sleep) with the news that she’d just gotten back from the farmers market and as a result there was fresh handmade bread, sausages and cheese on the table for…
“BURBANK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Corey Feldman returns to familiar turf in the Warner Premiere event, “Lost Boys 2: The Tribe,” the direct-to-DVD sequel to the 1987 cult hit “The Lost Boys” that also features his fellow Frog Brother, Jamison Newlander, along with Tad Hilgenbrink, Autumn Reeser and Angus Sutherland. The…
Alright, we just got back from the Cure concert over at the handily located Vector Arena – maybe 10 or 12 minutes walk from our apartment. 20 minutes if you add in a side-trip to the supermarket to purchase FORBIDDEN SNACKS which we then HID in the hidden compartment in Annettes…
One of my newsfeeds just flashed up a headline along the lines of “NZ has free broadband again!” which, naturally, caught my eye. “Someone is doomed.” I thought to myself. But, of course, I was wrong. And so was the headline. Here is the article in question – if you read…
This is genius. The plot points, the beat-perfect editing … Genius!…
From this article in The Australian: “Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside al-Qa’ida, says …[Terrorists] are rehearsing their operations in Second Life because they don’t have the opportunity to rehearse in the real world,” Gunaratna says. “And unless governments improve their technical capabilities on a par with the terrorists’…
When I was younger (like, 1999 or so) I used to watch Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson was tres cool, and that James May guy was a dork. However, nowadays James May is the coolest guy on Television .. laconic, relaxed, nothing to prove, secure in himself. A gentle man, and a…