Howard’s Mill

No, it’s not a documentary. It’s fiction.

With that out of the way, it’s a neat little film which takes a few pages out of the Blair Witch playbook. It plays the story fairly straight, does some supernatural shenanigans in the back half of the movie – which are clearly telegraphed in the first half so there’s no real shock – and has one of the most ludicrous post credits scenes I’ve seen in a while.

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Not much of a status update, but I found a personal white whale of retro tech at the GoodWill this weekend: A nearly fully functional 60GB launch PlayStation 3! For only $40!

I say nearly fully functional as the disc drive was… temperamental. It would read PS1 discs just fine, and occasionally would read a Blu-ray/PS3 disc, but would not read a DVD or a PS2 disc at all.

So, one trip to eBay (and three days shipping) later, it’s now been replaced with a shiny, refurbished drive. The system reads all discs like it was brand new. (more…)

Y’all

Just watched Lightyear – you know, the weird spin-off Toy Story movie.

It was a damn good action movie, really liked it. (more…)