Category: Bookshelf

Books, Music, Movies, etc.

Find-Your-Fate Returns on DVD

As a kid, I loved B‑level sci­ence fic­tion and fan­ta­sy books. Of course, of those, none were bet­ter than choose-your-fate books (note: I had most­ly the D&D brand­ed books, myself). Well, they’re back in a DVD for­mat in Scourge of Worlds — A Dun­geons & Drag­ons Adven­ture (actu­al­ly released in 2003). I’ll have to give… Con­tin­ue read­ing Find-Your-Fate Returns on DVD

GI Joe Live Action Film

I was think­ing about how cool a live action film of GI Joe could be in this ter­ror­ism obsessed age we live in, and low and behold, one may just be in the works after all with a great back sto­ry. Why not? A live action Trans­form­ers film is being produced.

Obsession

Ob·ses·sion Pro­nun­ci­a­tion: ‘äb- se- sh&n Func­tion: noun Def­i­n­i­tion: An extend­ed peri­od of time spent view­ing count­less episodes of shows or movies in a sim­i­lar genre or the same series because one has become seem­ing­ly addict­ed. Synonym(s): Butt-numb-o-thon (see Har­ry Knowles), addic­tion, OCD. Ety­mol­o­gy: Derived from obses­sion (note the stress on the first syl­la­ble for the new deriva­tion),… Con­tin­ue read­ing Obses­sion

“Brotherhood of War”

Tae Guk Gi: The Broth­er­hood of War One of the great things about Net­flix, is it can allow us to exper­i­ment with movies. Oh, sure, we could do that at the big blue & yel­low video store down the street. How­ev­er, they would nev­er car­ry a film like “Tae Guk Gi: The Broth­er­hood of War” (also… Con­tin­ue read­ing “Broth­er­hood of War”

TiVo Nearly Has IPTV

TiVo won’t trans­fer con­tent that has been down­loaded over the inter­net. Click image for full view. Just recent­ly, TiVo announced they would pro­vide week­ly down­load of prod­uct reviews by CNET. While not near­ly like hav­ing C|Net back on the air again (I miss Richard Hart and Gena St. John talk­ing tech on C|Net Cen­tral), it was… Con­tin­ue read­ing TiVo Near­ly Has IPTV

Clueless in Tampa

Back in the late Spring of 2003, I was locat­ed in Tam­pa for two-and-a-half months for busi­ness. While there, I had a great deal of time to catch up on read­ing and, for what ever rea­son, decid­ed to spend it on polit­i­cal sci­ence books. While pick­ing up a cou­ple of books at the local Barnes… Con­tin­ue read­ing Clue­less in Tampa