General

Serenity is out on DVD. It’s been out for awhile, but any store I went to had it only in “full screen” format. With the edges cut off, they mean, because some people can’t handle letterboxing. FULL SCREEN! AAAAGH! The reason stores only had those is because NOBODY WAS BUYING THEM. IDIOTS. No special-effect film … Read more

I had no idea what an Echo Boomer was, when I saw they were being singled out for advertising. What is WITH all these demographics specifically set up to make you spend your money, anyway? I suppose I slip in at the tail end of the Baby Boomer marketing generation, which supposedly ended in 1964. … Read more

Here is a link to a nice article about the New Mexico spaceport, largely about Virgin Galactic, but mentions some of the other private spaceflight firms.

Just reading this story about Virgin Galactic builing a spaceport in New Mexico brings me back to my childhood, reading those Heinlein stories and dreaming about the future. I am glad to be alive when the ‘future’ is happening. On the same page as that story, were stories about the accelerating erosion of one of … Read more

It had been so many weeks since Slashdot had chosen me to be a moderator. Was I not compulsively refreshing the page enough? Were they mad at me for becoming a Digger? There were so many articles I was saying to myself – oh, if only I could moderate these. And now I can. I … Read more