I've found that I've become a lot more self-conscious now that I'm driving around in a car with a big dent in the hood. It's effectively this big sign saying, "I HAVE BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT," and I want to be able to add it wasn't my fault; they backed into me!I'm also noticing a lot more cars with banged-up hoods. I'm assuming this is some ( Read more... )

Well, nothing specific has happened today to make the week any worse, which is nice; though the fact that it's only Wednesday was kind of enough of a downer ( Read more... )

I was never a huge fan of the Constellation program - it was a little depressing to know that it would take us twice as long to return to the moon as it did to get there the first time; and after growing up with the Space Shuttle, spending the next decade remembering how to build Big Gemini felt a bit like a retreat. On the other hand, so does the ( Read more... )

The option of getting Netflix on my PS3 finally prompted me to hook the thing up to the Internet. It's odd, now that I think about it, since I was playing Moos and WarCraft modem games way before online gaming was socially acceptable; but now that it's actually cool, I'm about the one person in my demographic who never bothers with it. Basically, I ( Read more... )

I now have Season 1 of Earth: Final Conflict on DVD.

This is a big deal for me. ( One I'll talk about it for a really long time! )

New Vertigo. I tried really hard to keep the weekly update schedule, but I failed. I am at the point where I can turn out a panel every hour or so, and I've subscribed to a ton of NPR podcasts that I can listen to and thus feel like I'm not wasting my time ( Read more... )

So when Fox puts its new episodes online, it does it with an eight-day delay. Which is apparently so that if you missed, say, the season premiere of House because you were covering a school board meeting, you can't watch it until the day after the second episode airs. Because they're jerks.

Vertigo is officially back to weekly updates, with an ( Read more... )

Vertigo's back! It's now hosted over at Smack Jeeves - which is an excellent service, by the way. The only drawback is they already had a (discontinued) comic called Vertigo; so now I announce the launch of Vertigo: A Space-Comic - a very cleverly retitled vision of the future ( Read more... )

So at about 11 p.m. yesterday night, I got this annoying throat cold. I think I'm blaming Old Threshers ( Read more... )

One of the nice things about my job is that occasionally you can socialize with famous people. In the sense that you hover around them taking their picture and occasionally get to ask them a question or two. Like groupies ( Read more... )