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"New New New Doctor."
Thanks to the magic of "The Internets," I've been able to see the first three episodes of the latest series of "Doctor Who," and so far I like it. Matt Smith managed to nail his brand-new Doctor pretty much immediately, Amy Pond is already in my top ten Best Companions Ever list, and the new TARDIS control room is awesomely retro-looking. Heck, ( Read more... ) -
Good News, Better News.
Good News: My vehicle inspection was completely uneventful ( Read more... ) -
Good News, Bad News.
Good News: I had a good time at Techincon ( Read more... ) -
Technicon 27 mini-writeup, with photos.
Just got back from the con. It was definitely in 'relax-a-con' territory, being basically a 'meet the guests' thing Friday night at the hotel, panels and such in two dozen rooms or so in a hall on the Virginia Tech campus on Saturday, and costume call and filking by White Plectrum in the evening. For various reasons, there will be no con on Sunday ( Read more... ) -
Hilariously ironic t-shirt alert
In Sunday's Roanoke Times, on the front page, was a story about Radford police getting tough on drunk college students. Below the headline, "Zero Tolerance", and over the fold, was this picture:
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And now, let's play Oddball!
Keith has the night off on "Countdown", but some of my friends would like to check out the November 18 show anyway. Maybe not the whole show, but the "Oddball" segment of that day's show. (Note: the MSNBC site works better under Firefox than Safari. Probably it works better under ANYthing but Safari. 9.9 )
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R.E.M.ember this?
I was watching the Diaicon video on Youtube because, well, just because. This led me to watching the Denshi Otoko opening animation, also just because. However, when I then went on a Youtube scavenger hunt for the one copy of the Denshi Otoko open with the picture-in-picture of the appropriate bits of the Daicon video, because I know I saw that, ( Read more... ) -
The Incredible Hulk
Just got back from seeing the film, and it was very good. Much to my surprise, it was indeed a direct sequel to the 2003 film, right down to a brief title sequence flashback recap. This is amusing because every frame of that had to be redone shot for shot because all but one cast member from the first was recast. That one cast member was, of course ( Read more... ) -
Technicon
I just caught myself noting down some button-worthy material, which reminded me that I have yet to mention this publicly: I won't be able to attend Technicon this year. This is not, for the record, because of the con's many and well-documented issues. The main reason is that two of my coworkers had declared that they wanted time off that very ( Read more... ) -
Bah!
Ken Wright commissioned a couple of buttons from me around the middle of February. Unforutunately, he failed to include a mailing address in his request, and has failed to respond to a couple of responses to the very address he used to contact me. Since I believe several of those watching my seemingly forgotten LJ know how to get in touch with him ( Read more... )