First off, if you are going to Dragon*Con, congratulations! You should have a great time! It’s one of the biggest SF/fantasy cons in North America, and it’s HUGE… like, “46,000 attendees” huge. It’s spread out over four hotels in downtown…
I’ve always been focused on personal productivity, and have frequently searched out ways to save time and energy and get more done. It’s bordered on an obsession sometimes, to be honest, and I have often wonder why use such shortcuts…
After getting some great feedback to my list of the top 10 SF films, I decided to do a similar list on horror. Please note that my tastes are obviously different than yours, and your agreement with this list (and…
I had the great pleasure of being able to attend two days of the big Star Trek KHANNN! in Las Vegas this past weekend. Got to see some old friends, meet a couple of new ones, and chat it up…
Top 10 Lists: Everybody’s doing them! I just read Film.com‘s list of the top 50 science fiction films, and I… disagreed (and apparently I’m not alone). Not violently, but enough to prompt this, my absolutely biased look at the top…
I’ve been busy. First, I (finally) ported the companion app for my book on UX design Experience Matters over to the Android platform. It contains book excerpts, the latest news and articles from my This Week in UX site, and…
When it comes to feasability, you have to look at three things: location, labor, and the type of lair you are trying to build. Location is the most important factor, because if it is in a remote area the construction…
Somebody stop me before I blog again! I have created yet ANOTHER new web site as part of my vast multimedia empire. The site, named The Twin Peaks Gazette, features the latest news, articles, videos and information about the wonderful…
I’ve launched two new news sites that I think people will like. The first, This Week In UX, features the latest news and articles in the User Experience domain. It is my semi-automated “sequel” to my This Week in UX…
I was reading about Forrest J. Ackerman, the late great creator of Famous Monsters magazine and world-famous movie memorabilia collector, and realized that I had never ever told my own personal Forry Story. Let’s correct that oversight, shall we? It…
One of the things that I have always wanted to own was a full-sized arcade cabinet. It’s driven by nostalgia, of course: I spent countless hours of my youth shoving quarters into Defender, Pac Man, Frogger or Star Wars… and…
Video I took of Alcatraz Prison, April 2012.
My friend Anthony Quinn has been working on a participatory art project for quite a while now, and I want to hype/promote it here. Once a week (give or take a day or two), he creates a piece of art…
The main difference between the original Battlestar Galactica series and the remake is in tone. The remake was much darker than the original, and much more "realistic" about how characters would react to the destruction of the 12 Colonies and…
It was at Dragon*Con 2009, a HUGE convention in Atlanta, GA. One of my all-time favorite filmmakers, Terry Gilliam, was there, promoting his (then new) movie The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Terry Gilliam had a panel on Friday afternoon, in a…