Was browsing through the stacks at Hulu — very nice interface for a video site — and found some great hard to find videos. Last Man on Earth– the Vincent Price version of I am Legend, maybe not quite as over the top as the Charlton Heston – Omega Man version, but the one I [...]
Every once in a while I come back to one of the best lists on the web. If you haven’t seen it — it’s worth taking a look if you have even a passing interest in MacGyver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver “This is a list of problems that have been solved by the fictional character MacGyver from the television series of [...]
I’ve been poring over copies of a great survival horror comic ‘The Walking Dead‘ over the last month or so. Amazing stuff — it’s taken a bit to get the collected copies – I’m on number 7 out of 8 (each collects six or so of the original comics). Can’t wait to read the last volume. It’s a [...]
At Target this weekend (I guess everyweekend), my daughter and I went by the toys to see what was new. Apparently we’d missed the best new Legos. There are now some excellent looking Indiana Jones sets. There was a shelf display with several of the kits set up including the ‘LEGO Indiana Jones Temple Escape‘ – yup [...]
Ok – not the old song, but while randomly viewing a bit of TV in the down time this weekend, caught a bit of Texas Hold’em tournament on the tube. While most of it was what you would expect, a moment of the inane commentary gave me pause. The commentator called out that: ‘…sometimes a good fold [...]
Ah – was able to have some great soft serve ice cream this weekend – brings me back to my childhood. And while while my daughter can’t wait for the new self-serve multicolor sprinkle machine – I think my favorite part of Carvel are the cakes. Gotta have the “Fudgie the Whale” cake - truly makes the occasion [...]
Ok this is even better… BrickArms toys — Lego compatible weapons and figures that you won’t find in any lego set. Gotta get the “M41A ‘Xeno’ Pulse Rifle” and the ‘Spy Bond’ figure. “All BrickArms toys are made of high quality ABS plastic – the same plastic that Lego uses in their own toys. They [...]
Wired’s Adam Rogers wrote a lovely, sweeping obit for Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax in this weekend’s New York Times that included this flowchart showing how D&D was a gateway drug into every kind of nerd-dom <from BoingBoing.com>: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09rogers.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin