Month: September 2011
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Friday Finds – Solar Sails and LEGO
Happy Friday all! It’s a busy day today, so I’ll get right down to it: Old Game Tuesday – Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri – What a fantastic game. Where Comic Books Make Us Uncomfortable – Me pondering sex appeal in comics. Ender’s Game – Might it FINALLY Happen? – We might ACTUALLY get the Ender’s…
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Where Comic Books Make Us Uncomfortable
By now, you may have heard of DC’s mass reboot of most of their comic books, and some of the expected backlash. A new spin, though, is the shall we say gratuitous sexyfication of females that occurred along with it. You can read this response to what’s happened to Starfire from a 7 year-old comic…
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Old Game Tuesday – Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
Alpha freaking Centauri. Those that love ‘Civilization’ type games often hold Alpha Centauri in extremely high regard. The game let’s you pick up where we pacifistic Civilization players left off – with a ship landing on an Alpha Centauri planet, ready to build a new society. Much of the game is Civ taken to a…
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Friday Finds – Gingerbread and Satellites
Hey everybody, hope you had a good week. I was busy being productive at work (and moving to another building) so the links are light. Here are this week’s posts: Gingerbread on my LG Optimus S – Got a surprise update this week, and it’s working pretty OK so far. Old Game Tuesday – The…
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Catching Up – TIE Fighter
The Best Star Wars game poll has shown me that many of you think TIE Fighter is the best of the best. In a fit of serendipity, my son discovered a copy of TIE Fighter I had bought at some point in the past. I think I paid a guy who was ‘simplifying’ his life…
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Mars Simulation Nearing Completion
I mentioned this mission back when it started, and now it is nearing completion (you may need a New Scientist login to view that article). What I’m talking about is Mars 500, an experiment to test the psychological stresses of long-term spaceflight, such as what would be required on a trip to the Red Planet.  the…
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HTC Rhyme – This Really Bothers Me
Take a look at that phone. It’s got a lot going for it. Verizon will probably be pricing it low, and it would fit very well at the low to mid-range of Android handsets. No 4G, but a better processor than my Optimus S, front-facing camera, a dock with speakers. Color is odd but hey,…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Homeworld Series
My review here will be on Homeworld: Cataclysm more than the other two, but much of what I have will apply. The Homeworld series of games, and Cataclysm specifically, I picked up because they were different. Unlike the 2D+ you got from some other RTS type games of the era, this had true 3D ship…
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Gingerbread on my LG Optimus S
Woke up this morning and was quite surprised to see a major update for my phone waiting – Gingerbread! That’s Android 2.3 for the uninitiated. I was a bit surprised, as I figured it had been long enough that I probably wasn’t getting it. I fired up the install and am now running from the…
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Friday Finds – Downy Canadian Dinosaurs and Colliding Galaxies
Hey everybody, hope you had a fun week. Here’s the posts from this week: Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D – Time did seem to stretch out before me in this, for sure. Old Game Tuesday – Civilization II – *snore* – Huh, what? I wasn’t sleeping after staying…
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Old Game Tuesday – Civilization II
Another game that needs no introduction, Civilization II is one of the most addictive games I’ve ever played. I know friends whose college classes suffered at the foot of it, long before Everquest and WoW would do the same for the next generation. Civ2 is still a go-to game for me when I want something slower-paced…
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Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D
You can file this under “Movies Mike saw so you don’t have to”. I had a pair of Fandango passes that had to be used by Friday, and this was pretty much the only movie left in theaters that was age appropriate. ‘Appropriate’ might actually be a stretch, as vomit/fart/poop laden ‘comedy’ isn’t really appropriate…