OK, I’m trying not to squeeze my Hyperbole Hat on TOO tight, but after a few hours playing with Xtranormal.com, I’m pretty frakkin’ excited. What is Xtranormal.com? Well, it’s a service, both free and paid, that allows you to create…
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Yes, I want one too: The Tauntaun Sleeping bag…
Think Geek did a whole series of “fake products” for April Fools Day – well, one of them looks like it will eventually get made: The Empire Strikes Back inspired Tauntaun Sleeping Bag… “And I thought they smelled bad… on…
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On Shatner’s Transformed Man album…
Bought on Amazon for only 99 cents, here’s my thoughts, rendered in 3D…
Geek
My (very late) thoughts on SXSW Interactive
Hey, sorry, loyal reader, I’ve been derelict in my duties: I promised some recap/thoughts on SXSW Interactive almost two weeks ago and I’m just now getting to it. No, it’s not because I’m just now finally recovering from the many…
Movies
REVIEW: Monsters v. Aliens… in 3D!
I posted an update in my Facebook profile just before I took my three sons to see Monsters v. Aliens that I hoped that none of the characters in the movie had a paddle ball (which is the cliche’ when…
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POTENTIAL SPOILERS: This season’s LOST finale… UPDATED: Sorry, they were foilers…
5/15/09 UPDATE: I was almost completely wrong about with my predictions below – apparently they were not spoilers, they were foilers (fake spoilers) that were being spread on the ‘net that I picked up on. The idea was that the…
Geek, TV
Goodbye: Reax to Galactica’ finale “Daybreak”
”There are those who believe that life here, began out there…” THERE BE SPOILERS HERE. I was completely satisfied with the final episode of Battlestar Galactica. Yes, it meandered a bit in the last 45 minutes, making sure every character…
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Happy International Talk like William Shatner Day!
I… am… happy… toannounce… that today is. Not. Only. WilliamShatner’sbirthday! Itisalso. International. Talk! Like! William! Shatner! Day! Thanks to my Facebook pal (and noted voice over actor) Maurice LaMarche for the creation of such a fine holiday… To celebrate, I…
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Some of my recent twitter tweets (from @josephdickerson)…
And they are called “tweets”, not… this. @amyhillman again, wait till June on the iPhone – Bet ya a million smackers (not a unit of legal tender) a new one will be out then about 21 hours ago from web in reply…
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Getting some extra tissues for tonight’s Galactica finale…
Eddie Olmos told me when I met him last year it was gonna be “tough to watch.” And speaking of watching, if you are DVRing the Galactica series finale toniht, add 11 minutes to the end… Cause it’s 2 hour,…
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Thoughts on SXSW forthcoming
Just got back from SXSW Interactive and have some thoughts on the conference I will be posting soon. I returned to three major deadlines at work so those have to be attended to first…
Geek
Favorite quotes from SXSW…
So far… “Comedy is like a song – it has a setup, a moment and then a punchline. It has a point and then it’s done. And people either like it, they get it – or they don’t.” – BJ…
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VIDEO: Ricky Gervais and Elmo
This video is full of win.
Geek
I’m at SXSW…
And I have so far learned three things: The direction I am going with my UX career looks to be the right one. The Day Stage panels are intended solely to sell books, and they kinda suck… I have to…
Movies
More (and final) thoughts on Watchmen…
I read with some interest an article from Nikki Finke on the Watchmen movie – in it she kind of mirrors my opinion of the movie, in that it was TOO literal a translation of the book, and that it…
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On Watchmen…
I really wanted to love Watchmen. I mean, if anybody on this planet was jazzed to see this movie, it’s me. The Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons miniseries from 1986/87 is one of my favorite works of the comic form. After reading…