After a few days with Tiger (OSX 10.4), I'm luke-warm on the upgrade ( Read more... )

Some of you have discovered that the BBC has released the original Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide game on their web site. I've been trying to find a version of this game that would run on a modern operating system for many years. In fact, the penultimate question I asked Douglas Adams was about the availability of that game ( Read more... )

Why do they put tickets for advance screenings of Serenity on sale at midnight? Don't they know that we have a kid and that we are asleep at midnight? What are they trying to pull ( Read more... )

http://www.studioeb.com/rocketeer.htm

Now, I don't speak Spanish, but being a native Californian and being raised on Sesame Street, some of it just sticks. In my rural South Carolina high school, I opted to take Latin, and while at UCSC, I dredged up the little German I remembered from our year in Switzerland as a kid. So the point is that I know little enough Spanish to make some of ( Read more... )

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haultadleckman goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a ghost with too many holes cut in the sheet.kavavita gives you 11 tan raspberry-flavoured gummy worms.mzbeca tricks you! You get a wad of paper.pfarley gives you 9 dark green lime-flavoured wafers.phidiana gives you 14 dark blue banana-flavoured gummy bats.stutefish ( Read more... )

...and Longest Party Ever Held are ahead of you in Fit the Sixteenth of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

And other delights. It must be Fit the Fifteenth of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I wish I had the rest of the afternoon to sit and riff on this, but I have to go teach.
OH MY GOD!
TAD
PS- Note the mixed sci-fi metaphor in the article's title!

The Last Starfighter', the Musical, Beams Down Into World Premiere in NYCTue Sep 21, 3:55 PM ET ( Read more... )