An open letter to the writers of the new Star Trek movie.
Caution: Includes Spoilers.
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Posts Tagged ‘rant’
Entry 0147
Monday, December 15th, 2008Entry 0133
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Disaster: Students Quarantined in University As Epidemic Unfolds.
In short: It looks like a school in China has quarantined everyone due to an outbreak of cholera. So far this hasn’t hit the major news networks - despite the quarantine having gone on for over three days now.
Reports were getting out via blogs and social networks – such as lack of food, water, medical treatment, information going either direction – and, as of yesterday (I think), their net access and water were both suspended.
I’m not entirely sure just how real this situation is – As with all things, it could be a massive hoax – but if real, it’s chilling, and a damn fine example of how easy it is to manipulate and suppress information despite the speed at with it can be disseminated.
Entry 0124
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008For some weird reason, I seem to be reduced to doing posts only about my weekends. I may have to try and write something else this week – but, until I do, here’s another Weekend Update.
Friday
Meet up with Nadia at her place, tried to fix her laptop – the sound has gone out. Made very little headway… Just enough to ensure that it’s not a problem with the volume turned way down… Didn’t think it was, but one must always be thorough when trying to fix something.
We went to Town Square, bought tickets for the movie we were going to see (Max Payne) and then headed to Kabuki, a quasi-Japanese restaurant. We had some sushi (kinda blah), she had the fried pork (pretty damn tasty), and I had the mixed beef/chicken hotplate (nummy). We talked and joked the whole time, was very nice.
After dinner, we walked over to Borders to kill some time – the movie wasn’t set to start for another hour and change… I picked up a couple of things, and Nadia bought me House of Leaves.
We grabbed a coffee (Well, she had a maple something or other, I had a chai something or other), I played with my new Zombie flash cards, then we went to see the movie. I’ll talk about the movie later, it actually should get a post of it’s own…
After the movie we were both pretty tired (was a bit after 1am), so I took her home, I went home and that was that.
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Entry 0100
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Is this game worth your $15?
Last week, the game Braid was released on the XBox Live service for about $15. The price point started off a mild rant storm on portions of the internets that are very geeky, somewhat cheap and populated by people who spend more time bitching about the price of games than they do bathing or actually spending time with other human beings.
Okay, I’m being a bit harsh, but debating the cost of a game before actually playing it is a tad naif… Which is why I decided to stay out of that “debate” until I’d actually purchased the damn game and given in a full go.
That time has come and gone, and I can safely say that this is a game that strives for greatness with its call backs to the very roots of platform gaming, the stunning soundtrack, the imaginative graphics and the quirky new gameplay mechanics. But is that enough? (more…)
Entry 0066
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Remember when I used to write things, like editorials or rants or reviews? Remember when there was more on my site that my feelings or expressions of boredom, or vague feelings of discontent colored with the rose tint of nostalgia?
Well, I do even if you don’t. In some ways, I admit, it’s a bit freeing not having to have a point when putting finger to keys (that just does not have the same ring as “pen to paper”), just being able to write for the sake of writing, for getting things into the realm of discussion.
Not that much of what I write is worthy of discussion, but that is neither here nor there.
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