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"It looks like we're headed into another year of big movies. I'm getting all fan-boy giddy just thinking about what's coming. On the heels of Avatar, though, it seems like every big movie is being filmed in 3-D. While I'm okay"
Movies 2010 - must see or must miss?

"First Stargate: SG-1 went down after 10 years. Now, Stargate: Atlantis has hit the wall after five years. That's all she (they) wrote. Next up... another spin-off (in the fall, I believe). Not to knock what they did there in the"
Two Stargates down, one set to go

"The MASIE Center - Learning Lab & ThinkTank - PodCasting for Learning Call I'm listening right now to this podcast. It's got a slow start, but there are some good ideas in there. For example, around the 10 or 15 minute"
Podcasting for learning Podcast

"Timez Attack I am really impressed with this game. It's engaging, the graphics are great, it has a cool adventure environment, and it teaches math. Seriously cool. As you (a small monster) run through the world, you meet up with puzzles that"
Fight trolls with math!

"What is wrong with parents? Today, my wife and I went to see two vastly different films, Wall-E and The Dark Knight (reviews to follow). In both films, there were families in the audience that made me want to go up"
Kids in the movie theater

"SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel SCI FI Channel's award-winning series Battlestar Galactica will move to a new timeslot starting Jan. 21, 2007: Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, following the premiere of the new original"
Battlestar Galactica moves to Sundays

"As may be appropriate for a movie with few spoken lines, this review should be pretty short. Amazing technical achievement. The visuals here are phenomenal. There were times that I forgot I was watching an animated film. Simply brilliant. The story was"
Review: Wall-E

"Look, let's just get right to it. If the movie is nearly as good as this trailer makes it out to be, it's going to be awesome... I was let down a bit by the last entry in the series, but"
Deathly Hallows trailer released

"Today we're having an installation of "What to do, What not to do" for percussionists. What to do Back in college I had the privilege of seeing a percussion group called Nexus perform. It was one of two moments in those years"
Percussionists: Object lesson for today

"'Highlander: The Source' Final Nail in Franchise Coffin - OhmyNews International I just had to pick a few of the favorite quotes from this review. Most of the reviews I've read recently have been profanity-laced, but all share the same emotion. They've"
More on 'Highlander: The Source'

"(This will be a short one, but only because I'm tired. No reflection on the movie.) The Upside of Anger is about a woman full of anger and the effect she has on her daughters, and their progression toward healing. It"
Review: The Upside of Anger

"There really isn't much I can say about this... it's one of those painful things that happens at sci-fi conventions. But you gotta see the third act.

Sometimes I miss going to conventions.... other times, not"
Vader is thrilling

"My wife's opinion differed a bit from mine (as usual... ;) ). Like me, she wanted to know more about what he was like after beating the addiction. The text said he never used heroin again, but did he substitute"
Review: Ray (another perspective)

"Murder in the First, based on a true story, tells the tale of Henry Young (Kevin Bacon) and his attorney (Christian Slater) as they expose the brutality of the Alcatraz prison, which led to reforms in the system. Henry was"
Review: Murder in the First

"My kids have been watching Signing Time on our local PBS station here for over a year now. They love the show so much that we got them one of the DVDs for Christmas. It really is a great kids"
Tuesday TubeWatch: Signing Time

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Back to Narnia with a new trailer, and a 2010 movie update

After a troubled history with Disney, 20th Century Fox has picked up the Narnia series and is moving forward. This December we’ll be treated to the next installment in the series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  The first trailer has just been released…

Chronicles Of Narnia 3

It looks good to me, but I don’t remember many of the details of this story. My favorite was always the first book in the series, The Lion, the Witch, . . . → Read More: Back to Narnia with a new trailer, and a 2010 movie update

I want to end my life, but I’m too lazy

I’ve got a swirl of thoughts going on in my head at the moment. This one’s gonna ramble. Hopefully it comes out making some kind of sense.

I want to end my life. Well, part of it anyway. I would prefer to continue breathing, let’s just get that straight right away.

I want to excise the part of myself that wants “stuff.” Wanting stuff is the pursuit of temporary pleasure. As soon as I get something I want, . . . → Read More: I want to end my life, but I’m too lazy

C.S. Lewis on living by hope

Last week I started doing something I hardly ever do – I started reading a non-fiction book. Even more amazingly, it’s an auto-biography. That’s a genre I almost never delve into. In fact, I can’t even remember the last non-fiction book I read cover to cover. It’s not even a recent book. I ran across it literally by providence, and decided to bring it home.

The book is Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis, author of The . . . → Read More: C.S. Lewis on living by hope