Pattern Recognition Review: HD Emptiness

Of all the William Gibson books I’ve read (which is all but The Difference Engine and Zero History), this is probably my least favorite. The book takes a lot of very interesting ideas, throws them together into a mixer and spits out a blend of hi-def descriptions and low levels of narrative. The story could […]

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September 25, 2011 at 5:16 pm | Books | No comment

Source Code Review: Trailer Injustice

Somewhere along the way, the marketing department for the movie Source Code had to have watched the movie. It’s practically a requirement to at least have some passing familiarity with the subject in order to build an audience for that subject. So with that in mind, I cannot for the life of me figure out […]

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September 18, 2011 at 4:23 pm | Movies & TV | No comment

Going the Distance Review: The RomCom Principle

I have a secret to tell. I actually like romantic comedies. Ok, let me rephrase that. I like GOOD romantic comedies, of which there are very very few. Hollywood has a tendency to find a successful formula and then rehash that formula with blatant disregard for anything approaching artistic merit, and the romcom genre is […]

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September 13, 2011 at 2:57 pm | Movies & TV | No comment

The USPS Part Duh: The Netflix Paradigm

I had an add-on thought to my post from the other day about the United States Postal Service. While many of the “free-market solves all” types howl for the Post Office to be shut down in favor of for-profit private enterprise, I would wager many of them don’t realize (or don’t want to) how instrumental […]

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September 12, 2011 at 8:32 pm | Politics | No comment

Mass Effect 2 and the Hiroshima Dilemma

I recently finished playing Mass Effect 2 for the first time. Yes, I realize that I’m about a year late on this particular bandwagon. I tend not to buy games like this at full price and thanks to Steam’s incredible periodic sales, I get all the gaming goodness at half the price or less. I […]

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September 12, 2011 at 7:57 pm | Video Games | No comment

Book Review: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

I have to give Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead two stars instead of one mainly because I do believe Card has the ability to write. However, after over 100 pages of reading this, I found the same problem with it that I had with Ender’s Game, only amplified. I didn’t care one whit […]

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September 8, 2011 at 9:31 pm | Books | No comment

The USPS: The New Socialist Evil

The last week has seen the shrieking deficit drama queens fixate on an entirely new target: the United States Postal Service. It seems that the Post Office is in a bit of a bind, fiscally speaking. Due to the insanely rising costs of healthcare (and thus, retirement funds since old people get sick a lot […]

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September 8, 2011 at 9:21 pm | Politics | 2 comments

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