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No More Than Meets the Eye

August 9th, 2007

Last Friday I made a point of seeing the “new” Transformers movie. I put the word new in quotes because the movie been out for about a month now. I panicked after discovering that Die Hard 4 has already left the theaters before I had an opportunity to see it, so I dropped everything and [...]

Goodbye, Fred Saberhagen

July 3rd, 2007

I have more than a few Fred Saberhagen books on my shelf (yet only a fraction of his body of work), and in this I’m not alone. Thus, it with a sense of loss that I help spread the word about his passing. He is another one of those writers who made an impression not [...]

More than Meets the Eye

June 28th, 2007

Some of you may have already seen this leaked video from the Transformers movie. The special effects are amazing, don’t you think? (Via Jawbone and Fishbrick)

I have 16 more days to upgrade my cable service and get Cartoon Network, so that I can see this.

If anybody knows how to build giant, ass-kicking robots, it’s the Japanese. Now you too can own your very own. It seems that Masaaki Nagumo has built something resembling a AT-ST. It’s 11 feet tall, moves under its own power, and shoots raquetballs using some kind of compressed air system. The suspension system could use [...]

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I ignore conventional blogging wisdom and refuse to focus on a single topic. This website covers gaming, family life, marketing, security, literature, music, and just about anything else shiny that catches my eye.

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