I never really minded getting my Borders Rewards e-mail. They always send you some coupons, which I use every so often. But the other day one of the e-mails bothered me. It was not just promoting the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy, but ahead of the title was “Oprah picks…” Is the fact that it is an “Oprah Pick” more important than the novel? Something about the whole thing just annoyed me.
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
I’ve been a gamer all my life. From the days of Atari and Intellivision to King’s Quest to Quake to Kingpin to Call of Duty to Neverwinter 2. I’ve played pretty much all of them, and even designed maps, skins, arenas and worlds!
When gaming first started there were no saves and respawn points. When you played a game you played it from start to finish. If you died you died and you’d have to start from the beginning and play your way through again. Of course, back them there was no such thing as hard drives built into the machines. Hell, my first PC didn’t even have a hard drive.
Monday, March 26th, 2007
I’ve been waiting for this movie for some time - being a fan of Frank Miller, having a huge interest in history, and loving the myths surrounding them. So needless to say I went opening weekend. Got my candy, super giant large soda and popcorn. There was nothing better at that moment.
The movie was good and followed, somewhat, the events of the war, except for the mutants that plagued it. But they did leave out a couple of event that would have made it better, such as the way the Persians marched to Greece. There was also something that didn’t make scenes with the Oracle, but I don’t want to spoil it for anyone.
They could have also used a little more research in the costume department, because the Spartans actually wore armor! The movie is packed with fighting scenes – probably somewhere around 70%. Overall it was worth the price of admission and is probably the best action movie this year.
Friday, March 16th, 2007
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