I tried and I tried to transfer a part of my soul into it. Just couldn’t figure out where to stick the USB cable. May have to wait for Pogue’s Missing Manual for that.
I’m off to get an iPhone. If I don’t come back, look for the Dark Mark over the midtown Apple store.
This post began life as a top-10 list of the finest in nerdwear. Nerds are, of course, a t-shirt-loving people, and the richness and diversity of their t-shirt culture is a beacon for all of mankind. After weeks of sifting through possibilities — yes, I actually devoted a lot of time to this — and [...]
This is not an actual post, but merely a shadow post, linking to a post by somebody else which is much funnier than anything I could have written.
I am not among the earthly elect who subscribe to HBO (nor for that matter am I among that somewhat larger elite class who own a TV) but these days video content is leaking messily all over the Internet, which is how I caught the first episode of Flight of the Conchords this weekend. The [...]
They’ve released a little video to announced the start of shooting on Indiana Jones 4. Not a lot of meat to it: no stars visible (that I recognized, anyway), just some drag racing with old-tymey classic cars, and Spielberg and Lucas standing around in the sun looking like the grizzled warhorses they are. The takeaway: [...]
I’ve said elsewhere that I don’t really believe in the myth of the spoiler — the idea that knowing how something ends takes all the fun out of it. But I do hate it when I’m reading something and I can’t remember how it began. And now that the Deathly Hallows — whatever they are [...]
As it happens I’m hard at work on a large-ish story about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, so it hasn’t escaped my attention that some hacker somewhere is claiming that he grabbed a copy of the book off a Scholastic computer and posted information about the ending.
