It’s been a busy summer so far, so let me update you on a few things:
I moved. For the past year Emily and I were living in a townhouse. It was quite lovely. The whole townhouse complex was populated by other grad students and young professionals – a nice change from undergrads peeing off the balcony above your front door. [read more…]
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I recently read somewhere that the near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating (96% as of this posting) received by the new Star Trek movie might have something to do with the “Oh! This doesn’t actually suck” factor. That is probably a fair assessment. Prequels can be risky, for sure, especially for a franchise with such an iconic place in our culture and as devoted a following as the Trekkies, and many people are highly skeptical that they will not be disappointed.
But with so many positive reviews, you can rest assured that Star Trek succeeds on more than just not sucking. [read more…]
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We took Little Man, one of our two cats, to the vet today to be put to sleep. He had Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). Read the link if you want to know what that is, but basically it’s kind of mysterious and fatal, and you never really know for sure if they have it, and it’s rare. But it’s also the second time one of the cats we’ve gotten from the Charlottesville SPCA got the disease, so apparently it’s not all that rare. [read more…]
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If you blog, post photos to Flickr, make web videos, or upload any other kind of self-made media to the web, you could be sued for copyright infringement – though maybe not in the way you would think.
You probably realize you can be sued for violating the terms of someone else’s intellectual property (for example, if you use a photo that you don’t have the rights to in your blog post), but what I found interesting about this post from The Blog Herald is that someone could sue you for infringement even though you are the original creator of the work. [read more…]
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Having spent the last few years in a graduate engineering & applied science program, I’ve heard no shortage of criticism directed at the Bush administration’s science policies. And for good reason, if you ask me.
But this short article from WIRED suggests that the Bush administration’s stem cell policy, right or wrong, should not be labeled “anti-science”. [read more…]
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A two disk set, one of which I'm pretty sure I already have from the iTunes box set, but at least now I have a CD/FLAC version. Both disks are pretty good. Some are alternate versions to previously released songs, some unreleased.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
