Monthly Archive for: ‘November, 2007’

• Ponderings For 2007-11-29

  Posted Nov 29 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Futurama’s “1% Rule” – something that is definitely true. If more shows would realize how well this approach works, there would be far more TV shows that are great fun to analyze. Personally, I love shows that are fearless about using references and jokes that …

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• Ponderings For 2007-11-28

  Posted Nov 28 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Google put out a new version of their Mobile Maps app that does a cool thing. It’ll give approximate location based on cell location, even without a GPS. I played with it on the way home today and it does a decent job. As good …

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• Ponderings For 2007-11-26

  Posted Nov 26 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  I have begun doing reviews of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes, as recently released in remastered hi-def on HD-DVD. I’m working my way through them sporadically (probably one or two a week), and shall continue to update the page as I do. I haven’t …

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• Ponderings For 2007-11-22

  Posted Nov 22 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  So, did you have a happy Thanksgiving? I’m SO far behind on movie reviews, I’ve got more than half a dozen partially completed and have trouble getting myself to just choose some to finish and get on with it. I’ll quit promising to have them …

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• Ponderings For 2007-11-20

  Posted Nov 20 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Yeah, the many reviews for which I’m behind will finally start to show up over the holiday weekend. For a list of what I’ve seen that don’t yet have reviews posted, just check out the latter part of my 2007 viewing log. I’m enjoying listening …

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• Ponderings For 2007-11-19

  Posted Nov 19 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  So, seen the new trailer for Cloverfield yet? Seriously cool stuff. I hope it’ll be a big hit, cause I’d love to see writer Drew Goddard a-listed. Goddard was quickly snapped up by JJ Abrams for Alias (and then Lost) after his work on Buffy …

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• Ponderings For 2007-11-18

  Posted Nov 18 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Oooooh, finally a definitive soundtrack release for Blade Runner. Boy, all the stops are being pulled out for us Blade Runner fanatics. This 25th anniversary is becoming THE time to be a Blade Runner obsessed fan like myself. After years and years of us fans …

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• Good Luck Chuck (3/10)

  Posted Nov 14 2007 in Movie Reviews with 0 Comments

  Poor Jessica Alba. Poor, poor Jessica Alba. Try as she might to save this dog of a film, she can’t quite pull it off. Writing: This comedy falls flat in between some of the clever notions it presents. Frankly, it’s a movie that should work, …

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• Ponderings For 2007-11-13

  Posted Nov 13 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  AWESOME photo. Here’s a version I cropped to 1920×1200 for you fellow high-res widescreen monitor users. It’ll be my wallpaper for a while. BTW, the pic is from a couple weeks after 9/11. Spidey to the rescue Could you read that back in 12-year-old? Wait, …

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• Ponderings For 2007-11-12

  Posted Nov 12 2007 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – WHERE IS PARKER LEWIS CAN’T LOSE ON DVD?!?!?! Come on, Sony! Here’s a painful flashback to the 70′s. A hilarious one, too. And here’s more video of the winged lunatic Who doesn’t love a carnival? …

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