…And just as I realized I was being remiss in my geek duties to not have posted a Trek entry before today, so to am I remiss in not mentioning that my pal Lanny Lathem recently posted a new and…
Trek
Obligatory first Star Trek post: Wil Wheaton, Trek reviewer
I’ve been off my game – almost two months posting with a WordPress blog (after abandoning iweb) and I have yet to post a Trek entry. Geez. Anyway, Wil Wheaton has been doing retro-reviews of episodes of Star Trek:…
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VIDEO: Georgia Aquarium
And finally, in my last of my video posting frenzy, here’s a 9 minute segment I edited together from visiting Atlanta’s new (at the time) Georgia Aquarium. Hope you like it. [youtube]MxlBk2h_LX0[/youtube]
Disney
VIDEO: WISHES Disney Fireworks show
And along similar lines to my last posting, here’s video from the Walt Disney World Wishes fireworks show. Enjoy. [youtube]d_-aN3fffEs[/youtube]
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VIDEO: Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party Parade
Still migrating content from my old blog, and here’s something I posted there – it’s video of the Disney parade that was part of a special ticketed event – Mickey’s Not-so-Scary Halloween Party. Lots of great stuff, and my wife…
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Behold the power of Caruso!
My wife is a devoted watcher of all three CSI shows, and whenever I come into our living room and see her watching CSI: Miami I cannot avoid doing my bad David Caruso impression. “Now, let you tell you what’s…
Disney
Disney’s Circle of Life Attraction…
Originally posted June 2006 Wanted to discuss this as it made a great impression on me – the Circle of Life Movie in the Epcot Land Pavilion. This movie.. well, let me find the proper words… THIS MOVIE IS THE…
Geek
Superdickery!
Superman may well be a champion of justice, as well as the last son of Krypton, but for a while in the 50s and 60s, he was… well, a dick. Numerous evidence has been uploaded to the Internet and is…
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Retro 80s Movie Fest, courtesy of Netflix’ Video On Demand”¦
Netflix finally rolled out their video on demand service a week or so back, and so far I’m impressed. You have to download a player (really a plug in for windows media player) and they have a varied selection of…
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Howard Hughes vs. The Godfather – how cool would that have been?
Originally published April 2006 I’ve been doing some reading on Howard Hughes recently, spurred by a blog post from Mark Evanier’s News From Me> site, and I stumbled upon some interesting facts about Hughes stint in Las Vegas (besides the…
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Damn you, DRM!
Ok, I posted the earlier link to AOL’s U.N.C.L.E. episodes without some of my caveats, so here they are: Damn you, digital rights management! I mean, I spent hours downloading episodes and then I had to watch it through the…
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Happy Anniversary James Lileks!
A quick note wishing a happy anniversary to a man I have had the pleasure to exchange pleasantries with (via ye’ ol’ Internet) – James Lileks today celebrated his 10th Anniversary on the world wide web. For over a decade now…
TV
Downloads from U.N.C.L.E.
Well, it’s not the DVDs that were stalled due to legal issues last year (which I detailed on my old dead .mac blog) but it’s the next best thing: Downloadable episodes of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. have been added to…
Geek, Movies
Review – Superman Returns
Originally Published June 29, 2006 For years fans have discussed the “Superman curse.” This curse is supposed to fall on the actors who portray the Man of Steel ““ apparently a streak of bad luck comes with playing the part,…
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Disaster Preparedness Public Service Announcement
Originally Published November 19th, 2006 OK, this is my public service announcement posting for the year, so bear with me. I spent a nice afternoon this weekend with my brother-in-law, an insurance salesman (reseller/independent agent) and he was telling me…
TV
“What do you mean, ONE of his last words?”
I neglected to mention when I wrote previously about the DVD release of the first season of Saturday Night Live the one reason I’m excited to see its release. No, it’s not the classic Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise…