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Category Archives: Entertainment
Ice Age 2: Meltdown
Everyone knows that sequels are rarely as good as the original, but I think Ice Age 2 is nearly as good as Ice Age was. It certainly kept me laughing. There were good gags, plenty of action and adventure, and … Continue reading
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Worst movie I’ve seen in years
I strongly recommend against seeing “Ultraviolet“. It’s supposed to be a science fiction live action comic-book style vampire movie. They got the “comic” part right, though not intentionally. It’s like a bad mashup of The Matrix, Kill Bill, and Blade. … Continue reading
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Ticket to Ride board game, computer game
I’ve long enjoyed board games, such as Settler of Catan and Puerto Rico. On my trip to Oregon this past November, Torsten introduced me to two new games, Ticket to Ride and Transamerica, both of which are train games. They’re … Continue reading
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Best comedy value for your dollar
Well, for your three dollars, anyhow. The Vestibules (formerly Radio Free Vestibule) have released a downloadable mini album Chest of Drawers 5.0. It is delivered as a ZIP file containing ten sketches in MP3 format. The cost is $3 via … Continue reading
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Upgrade your DVR
Boing Boing describes a $25K bounty for hacks to the new DirecTV PVR to allow usinng a different (higher-capacity) hard drive, multiple drives, etc. They state that they specificially don’t want anything that will bypass the DRM or Tivo’s service … Continue reading
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Backing up a damaged DVD
I have a damaged DVD that will no longer play in my DVD player. My computer seems to be able to read it OK. The official position of the MPAA is that I’m shit-outa-luck, and should just buy another copy. … Continue reading
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
When I was in the second grade or thereabouts, the teacher read us “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl in installments after lunch. I loved the book, and was delighted by the first film adaptation, Willy Wonka and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Fiction, Film
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A few thrillers
Dan and I recently saw Flightplan. Fairly good, though the amount of unused space in the “E474″ jet aircraft was unbelievable to the point of absurdity. This weekend I saw A History of Violence. Most of Cronenberg’s films are quite … Continue reading
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2046
Dan and I saw the film “2046“. I’d seen a review that said it was science fiction, but that was incorrect. Set in Hong Kong in the 1960s, the film is about a journalist who does write some science fiction, … Continue reading
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US Navy SEALs discover gravelings?
From Boing Boing: US Navy SEALs see unknown ape in Africa, They look virtually identical to the gravelings seen in the series “Dead Like Me” (images here and here).