Archive for January, 2008

Morning Spoilers: Spoilers For Watchmen, Dragonball, Lost and CJ7

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Sitting at my desk just now, I felt compelled to throw my hands up in the air, not because of the spoilers per se that are contained in the link below, but because apparently no one bothered to tell me earlier that Carla Gugino is going to be in the Watchmen movie.

Morning Spoilers: Spoilers For [...]

Sacramento

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Took a trip with a birder friend a week ago to the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex—which, by the way, as a poetic name destined to inspire a sense of wonder in children, naturalists, artists down the decades, I’m sure. Way to roll trippingly off the tongue, SNWRC.

It was a lot of fun, and edumacational. [...]

Eye-implantable camera: Bad Robot to challenge patent with prior art?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Just kidding. But Alias fans will recall the tech who removed Sloane’s implant recording his own death using a device of this nature.

The camera, which researcher Michelle Hauer and her team recently filed a patent for, is small enough to be implanted directly on the eye’s lens, and feeds image data to a chip at [...]

Neko Case+Aqua Teen Hunger Forcer=Waaaah?

Monday, January 21st, 2008

http://www.nekocase.com/news/2008/01/aqua_teen_hunger_forcewoo_hoo_1.html

Come with SUMMER GLAU if you want to live

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

I think I shall.

Film!

Friday, January 11th, 2008

I’ve been contemplating using my employee fee waiver to take a b/w photo class at Laney—traditional darkroom stuff, etc.

But, I wasn’t sure how much I might love or hate the process of shooting with film, so I bought a preposterously inexpensive thirty-year-old (give or take) Nikkormat FT-2:

I wanted an old Nikkormat because I have a [...]

Except Days of Sweeping

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

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I keep expecting to see Tom Cruise blast down College Avenue on a street sweeper…