(I went to see this a couple months back and never commented.) The fairy tale of Rapunzel is an odd story, but often retold. A poor man’s pregnant wife craves the rapunzel plant from the witch’s garden next door, and out of desperation, the man raids the garden of the witch in order to get [...]
Bioware’s new Dragon Age: Origins CRPG arrived in the mail on Wednesday. Confused marketing prior to the release had me wondering whether to buy it. I don’t understand why Bioware insists on using their concept art to market their titles. The art is always dark and murky, a little pulp, and never reflects the actual [...]
The decision to make the trip to APE (Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco this year was totally spur-of-the-moment, but worked out much better than the soggy, rain-ladden venture we made last year. Plenty of sunshine and a great parking spot made a great start, and I found both a Catbutt City mug as well [...]
Been reading Len Fisher’s Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life for the past couple weeks. Author of approachable explanations of science such as How to Dunk a Doughnut, Fisher is also an Ig Nobel prize winner and physicist. His goal as a writer is to make science interesting, relevant, and understandable to a [...]
Bear in mind, I loved the dystopic, chaotic, anarchistic, angry, four-toned panels of the original comic, so my opinion about a shiny, flashy, high-res, and slow-mo studded movie is bound to be reserved. I didn’t want to walk into another Wanted experience, so I deliberately set my standards low, low, low for the Watchmen movie. [...]
The writer dismisses Google Chrome for its lack of user friendliness and crashing interface.