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Quick Update

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 […]

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Welcome back, Potter!

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 […]

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Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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 […]

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Serenity

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. […]

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Gossamer Commons

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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