I've been thinking about changing the style of my blog. I do like the feel of the current style. I designed it (well, modified) so that it is reminiscent of a Moleskine. It has the textured off-whitepages, the textured black background representing the cover. The serif font conveys a particular emotion that is congruent with…

I had signed up for some kind of alert on Google Alerts, and finally therewas some good news: Grand Theft Auto IV is being released on PC, apparently due out on 18 November 2008. That's certainly getting marked down on my calendar. I wonder if the graphics are going to get any better. After being…

It was a quiet evening. For a summer night it was relatively cool, with a fresh breeze blowing in across the desk, tickling my fingers as I type and otherwise go about my business. I was watchingEdward Scissorhands and wondered why it's always the sensitive guy with a good heart that has to suffer the…

I was watching the Spider-Man trilogy in glorious HD the other day and I started thinking about the science behind superheroes. I remembered that there was some book written on just that topic. Feelingsomewhat lazy, I just asked ChaCha to find me the most popular book on superheroes and science. They gave me James Kakalios's…

My HP Blackbird 002 arrived a little earlier than was expected (I got it a little over a week ago). It was a behemoth. The UPS fellow, a tall and strong fellow, had to lug the beast of a shipping boxoff the truck with a handtruck. I dragged it through the doors into the living…