Finally got around to watching The Island on DVD. I knew going in that the movie was a pastiche of Logan’s Run and (more directly) Clonus. You would think, though, given the resources of Michael Bay that the movie would at least equal the other two movies. But it really doesn’t.

The main problem (as with [...]

I watched the Spielberg War of the Worlds today on DVD, and my thoughts on it really haven’t changed since I saw it in the theater: good effects, great sound, poor movie. But I realized that the DVD could have really improved the movie immensely with one special feature: the ability to mute Dakota [...]

I am a mouse whore.

There, I’ve admitted my problem. I should be well on the road to recovery soon. I really am a mouse whore, though: I can’t resist buying a new mouse, even if the old one works perfectly fine. Indeed, I’ve never had a Logitech mouse fail on me (wish I could say [...]

Shiny!

Spoilers, ho!

Last night, I saw Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. And, truly, it should be called “Spielberg’s” because no one else could take an apocalyptic event and make it all about a guy reconciling with his kids. Unfortunately, it’s that famous Spielberg schmaltz that once again torpedoes the movie.

Firstly, the good. The special [...]

Ah, much much better. My previous Slingbox appeared to be deeply flawed: no sound, then no picture. However, after exchanging the unit and re-connecting it, all appears fine. This time, both the video and audio came up immediately and it all looks great!

With a working unit, the connection and setup was quite painless (though I [...]

Update: Replacing the unit fixed the problems. After further experiments, I think the original problem was likely the network cable connecting the Slingbox to the wireless bridge: at first, I thought my wireless bridge was acting funny, but it worked perfectly with the replacement. Had I been thinking, I might have actually tried replacing the [...]

Comic books rarely make me cry. This one did bring a few bittersweet tears to my jaded eyes. And it did it by being smart, by sticking with strong characterizations, and by using genuine emotion. It’s one of those comics that does in a few pages what other comics never do.

The critics of the old [...]