Unlike most people who call themselves Geeks, I have never read the Hobbit. I only read Lord of the Rings right before the movies came out. And then only because the chick I was dating loved them (we’re married now so it worked out). While the story was good, I’m Read more…
Check out another edition of Games for Two over on GSA. This time I take a look at a new game we got during Fantasy Flights mega sale after Thanksgiving.
The first teaser trailer for the next Star Trek movie, Into Darkness, came out today. There’s a lot of interesting things in that 1min video. For awhile, it’s been rumored that Benedict Cumberbatch, whose playing the villain, would be Gary Mitchell. In TOS, he was an old friend of Kirk’s who Read more…
A team in China has taken a major step forward in developed a quantum internet. They have succeeded in using quantum teleportation on a macroscopic scale to more “data” from one atom to another over a distance of 150m. This is another step in the direction of using quantum entanglement Read more…
I went to see Skyfall this weekend. It was the first time I’d been to see a movie with my wife since our son was born. We’d both seen Avengers and Hunger Games but went at different times. But we love Bond so we made sure we both went together Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…