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Jack’s dead – again – but he’ll probably be back

“24″ Casulty of Writer’s Strike – Slice of SciFi

Due to the Writer’s strike, many shows are considering their options. Apparently “24″ decided to throw in the towel on this year.

The seventh season of the hit real-time series was scheduled to begin in January, but producers had completed only about one-third of its 24-episode order as of last week.

I actually think that’s a good move, given the way this show works. If . . . → Read More: Jack’s dead – again – but he’ll probably be back

The Silence of the Lamb

Silence. That’s all I was after. Just make the screaming stop (and prevent me from adding to it) – nothing else mattered.

While the challenge presented by my youngest child today may not be unusual for some families (unfortunately), for us this is like having a completely different child that we’ve never met before suddenly show up and take the place of a usually extremely sweet and relatively easy-going child.

What follows is . . . → Read More: The Silence of the Lamb

11 Minutes Ago

Trailer for 11 Minutes Ago

The first thing that impressed me about this movie was that it was shot, in it’s entirety, in a single day. For a feature length film (I’m guessing it comes in at right about 88 minutes), that’s incredible.

The next thing that impressed me was the plot. A time traveler who can only travel in 11 minute increments bumps into a girl at a wedding reception who says “Yes” to . . . → Read More: 11 Minutes Ago

CoolPlayer – WordPress media plugin

[UPDATE: as you can see below, I'm having some problems with CoolPlayer - like it doesn't work anymore. I've switched to the Anarchy player.]

As you can see from the previous post, I’m trying out a new plugin to embed video in WordPress (the software running this blog). There are some good players out there, but I’ve found that CoolPlayer does the job nicely for me, with a total minimum of effort – and that’s . . . → Read More: CoolPlayer – WordPress media plugin

X-wing follow-up: the real story

Looks like the footage I pointed to earlier had been edited to omit the true cause of the scale model X-Wing’s demise. Here’s the real, unedited, footage.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/QgF9hBL-CuA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

[tags]x-wing, star wars, you tube, air battle[/tags]

Are you prepared?!

I wish I had found this before Halloween was over….

Zombies in Plain English

Remember… Zombies Don’t Dance!

[tags]zombies, instructional video[/tags]