Sherlock returns Jan 1st 2012

December 8, 2011

The Grand Moffat just tweeted the news: Sherlock returns, Sunday,Jan 1st, 8.10pm, BBC1. First the woman, then the Hound and then, of course, the fall… The reference to “the woman” is the classic Holmes story involving Irene Adler, A Scandal in Belgravia. Sherlockology has a spoiler-free review of Scandal that will whet your appetite! The [...]

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Reaming Reamde

November 19, 2011

I HATE to be that guy but I just wasn’t expecting Reamde to be so … mass-market. Here’s the review from Tor.com, which cements the problem I have in general with most reviews of celebrity writers with the very first sentence: It’s becoming increasingly clear that throwing all expectations overboard whenever Neal Stephenson releases a [...]

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and, we are back

November 18, 2011

Well, that was unpleasant! As this site has grown in pagerank, it’s become the victim of ever-more sustained hack and spam attacks. The latest round was bungled, it simply took me offline rather than silently harvest my mojo for nefarious purposes. It’s clear that at some point I am going to have to pony up [...]

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What Would Steve Do?

October 6, 2011

I think the best way to honor Steve Jobs’ legacy as a visionary is to refuse to be content. Why was the Mac such a success? Because of user discontent with computers at that time – and the existence of Macs is why Windows 95 was such a revelation to me, and why I love [...]

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The Doctor and the Ultimate Question

October 3, 2011

Q. Doctor Who? A. 42 And so Season 6 ended, not with a bang, but with a wedding…

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Scrabble re-enactment in ASCII

September 22, 2011

this is … amazing. （ ゜-゜）> ┬───┬ (゜-゜ ) （ ゜-゜） ┬───┬ ┬───┬ (゜-゜ ) （ ゜-゜） ┬───┬ ┬───┬ (゜-゜ ) （ ゜-゜） ┬───┬ (゜‿゜ ) （ ゜.゜） ┬───┬

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Reviewing Reamde

September 14, 2011

BoingBoing has an early review of Reamde up and it has seriously whet my appetite. Gold farming is the hook but apparently Stephenson is also a bit of a gun nut. Who knew? Exciting! I’ve pre-ordered my copy from Amazon in save-a-tree format. I actually don’t even own a Kindle but it’s still the best [...]

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Sherlock soon

September 4, 2011

Man, I cannot wait for this to get started. I’ve also caught up on Torchwood: Miracle Day, and Doctor Who is rolling along as well, and Warehouse 13. This may well be the golden age. Also discovered the site Sherlockology which is definitely going to be handy

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wanted: used mac mini for iPhone app development

August 14, 2011

I’m throwing in the towel on getting my hackintoshed Dell Mini to work. It’s just too hard to get things going on it. All I want to do is run the development environment, so if anyone out there has a Mac Mini they are looking to closet in favor of the new hotness, please let [...]

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NPR’s list of top 100 Science Fiction of all time

August 11, 2011

Here’s the list – I’ve read 51 of these. And the #1 and #2 slots are exactly what I’d have picked. I am glad to see Neil and Neal on the list (though NPR spelled Neal’s name wrongly in one entry). Especially love the fact that The Princess Bride made it on the list! Inexplicably, [...]

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