Ah Halloween. The day to dress up and act silly. Gouge yourself on candy. Become someone creepy. Not much in the way of festivities going on here tonight. Baby’s only 8 months old so to young for trick or treating (or even eating candy) and it’s a week night so Read more…
Some pretty surprising news out of the entertainment industry today. Disney has bought LucasFilm, which includes Star Wars. That was completely unexpected. We all expected Star Wars to remain in Lucas’ firm grasp until he died. Part of the announcement includes a mention that Disney plans a seventh film in Read more…
It’s been quiet on the blog lately. The baby started crawling recently so I’m down to just nap time as potential writing time. And I’ve been trying to devote what time I have to Aristeia 3. That’s left little time to blog and no time for GSA articles. But this weekend Read more…
To finish up the month of music top tens, I’m going to look at my other musical passion, soundtracks. Now, I enjoy a good classical piece (Holst’s The Planets, 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, etc) but I really enjoy a lot of instrumental soundtracks. A good soundtrack can make the difference Read more…
I’ve never been a fan of political parties. Representatives in a republic are already responsible to so many different groups: their constituents, their personal beliefs, the good of the country as a whole. Feeling beholden to yet another group that is responsible for their getting elected, distorts this sense of Read more…
Last week we looked at specific songs that I love. Now we’ll go a little broader and look at artists/bands. There is definitely some overlap but a few new ones. One of the qualifying elements to make this list was my owning multiple albums by a group. In some cases Read more…
I tried out Facebook ads this weekend while my publisher was running their $0.99 sale on ebooks. Sales were pretty good, by some weird miracle, but that started before I launched the ad. So judging how effective the ad was in generating sales is next to impossible. However, it did Read more…
Today in our top 10 tour we’re going to look at music. This suffers from the same dilemma as books. Should we look at favorite artist/band? Song? Album? Fortunately, I’m less musical savvy than I am a reader. So I’m just going to stick with favorite songs for now. We Read more…
We recently finished watching “In Plain Sight”. While I wouldn’t classify it as one of my favorite shows, we did enjoy the series. It had its fair share of tropes and “uggh” moments, but for the most part they were pretty limited. The characters were likable and the situations mostly Read more…
I have a new article up on the GSA. It’s the first in what I hope to make a series of articles about games you can play with two people. My wife and I both enjoy games, and we’re two people, so we’ve tried out a few. And we’re not Read more…