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Quick Update
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Links, Music
Apologies to all my faithful readers, I’ve been busy working on some new features for the ICON 30 website (with some massive help from Aizuchi. For extra pain, we’re into our next beta cycle at work; so I’m considerably busier there. And if that wasn’t enough, I’ve had a bit of a cold that just […]
Tags: anime, AnimeIowa, Books, Code, coffee, doctor, funny, HAL, Links, pain, Photos, podcast, portal, problem, thoughts, videos, Webcomics, weekend
Welcome back, Potter!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) My rating: 4 out of 5. After a two year wait, Ms. Rowling has finally released her latest book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6).1 It’s a bit shorter than her previous book but it’s quality not quantity we’re after and the Half-Blood Prince delivers. Rather […]
Tags: Books, HAL, reading, series
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews
Yup, I finally went and saw this wretched bit of crap that Lucas put out. It was less horrifically bad than I had anticipated but still failed to be a good movie. The dialog was cheesy and the acting wooden. In particular “Annie” aka Darth Vader blew chunks, though he did get slightly better once […]
Tags: Code, crap, Links, Movies
Serenity
Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews
As my long time readers might recall, I watched a show called Firefly a while back and greatly enjoyed it. This week, thanks to one of my co-workers, I had an opporunity to drive 5 & 1/2 hours to plant my butt in a packed movie theater at 10 o’clock with a broken air conditioner. […]
Tags: broken, Code, coffee, driving, flying, Links, Movies, office, Reviews, thanks, tv, writing
Gossamer Commons
Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Reviews
Later today, I’ll be posting PLotW1 but before that happens here’s a different link that you should really check out. Gossamer Commons is a relatively recent webcomic, started back in March 2005 by Eric Burns and Greg Holkan. Eric writes, Greg draws. The premise is something like so; the main character, Keith, has saved the […]
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