Remember the good ole “dash” versus “plus” wars? I’m talking of course about the DVD-R versus DVD+R format wars for rewritable DVD media. Currently we have a similar war waging and that is between the Blu-ray ™ and HD DVD formats for high definition DVD media. It looks to me like it is going down [...]
23Oct2007
11Oct2007
I just finished Frank Herbert’s Dune on audiobook and am completely stoked. It really made the commute back and forth to my new job so tolerable. I saw the old movie made back in 1984 for which I have always been a fan. However, I never read the actual book and now I regret that [...]
16Sep2007
This is a cool video someone sent me on YouTube. It’s a collection of swooping, which is one of the more extreme aspects of skydiving. Basically skydivers pilot their canopies in a manner that has them skimming along the ground at insane speeds. They have competitions that include navigating courses, many of which include water. [...]
16Aug2007
What a great time to be a geek! It seems that every time I turn around there is yet another reason the media gives us for being a geek. Napolean Dynamite took the world by storm. Now we have… Superbad, a coming-of-age cautionary tale about two socially inept teenage boys about to graduate high school. [...]
8Aug2007
Fall is fast approaching and of course we have the scary movie marathons to look for both on the screen and on television. The latest reincarnation of the Halloween the movie franchise was written and directed by none other than Rob Zombie. Don’t know who that is? He is a rock… maybe goth rock musician [...]
31Jul2007
As if Apple didn’t have enough troubles with an idiotic class action suit. Now Eminem represented by Eight Mile Style LLC and Martin Affiliated LLC, his music publisher and copyright manager, is suing Apple for millions. Why? He says that he never gave Apple the right to distribute his tunes on iTunes. The funny thing [...]
21Jun2007
What happens when a CIA agent gets fired? You will soon find out on USA Network’s Burn Notice, a new series premiering June 28.
The Lowdown
Jeffrey Donovan stars as Michael Westen, an international spy who suddenly finds himself blacklisted. Dumped in his hometown of Miami without money or resources, Michael struggles to put his life back [...]
22May2007
The Ultimate Matrix Collection [HD DVD] was released today (May 22, 2007) and what could make your geek dad happier on Father’s Day (right around the corner). This is a 5 Disc collection in [HD DVD] format with the following contents:
DVD Features (1080p):
Disc 1: The Matrix (1999)
Side 1
In-Movie Experience
Written introduction by The Wachowski brothers
Philosophers’ commentary [...]
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