Depending on how you felt about 1982's "Blade Runner" and 2013's "Her", "Ex Machina" is either the first, second, or most recent outstanding movie about falling in love with an AI construct ( Read more... )

I love sliding-block puzzles. Naturally, you say, because sliding-block puzzles are logic-based with manipulatives in a square grid, like that other game you play ( Read more... )

Before the Avengers double feature yesterday there were trailers ( Read more... )

I was prepared for "Avengers: Age of Ultron" to disappoint. Runner Joss Whedon said in post-wrap interviews that Disney wrung the life out of him like it had several other directors of its Marvel movies, and my favorite film writer was lukewarm in her review ( Read more... )

Richmond Flying Squirrels broadcaster Jon Laaser said he saw signs that the Squirrels might win today after 11 losses ( Read more... )

After it was discovered that beer plus hot dog mustard plus vampire spit combines to form a lethal and icky goo, the office of the commissioner of baseball determined that it had to act swiftly "for the good of the game ( Read more... )

The stoner holiday 4/20 was a suitable day to visit the dispensary, while the dispensary across the corner from the Metreon Center gave away goody bags and medicinal hot chocolate. While I was there, the 420th customer of the day won an ounce of product.

Walking south on Sixth Street toward the train station, my audiobook (The Lost Wife, a ( Read more... )

When the hunters on the Gading Green Sox baseball team looked for vampires, they could find a clue in a spit of tobacco chaw - when a vampire chewed and spit, the chaw that was usually disgusting anyway roiled in unnatural colors and hissed like corrosives ( Read more... )

My friend Jenavieve is my sister. Jena's dad loves to play chess. He likes my first book very much, so I'm always glad to converse with him about chess and how great my first book is. Really, it's not, but my friends in chess education say it's a fine book for the audience it found ( Read more... )

For the first 16 hands of the PL Omaha/8 sit-and-go, I entered two hands, folding one on the flop and winning another. Since it was a typically loose $1.50 sit-and-go, one player was already out, and another was crippled - chip leader had 5100, everyone else around 1400 (except the crippled player at 300 ( Read more... )