I’ve been playing a lot of this little game called FTL. It’s a spaceship simulation game, but not of the gratuitous space battle variety. Instead, players control one ship, its upgrades, and can delegate crew members to do stuff. It’s almost like being a project manager on a space ship. This may sound boring, but [...]
Usually, I keep my book reviews on Goodreads, but some times, I read a great book and I want to share it with everyone I know. Wool is one of those books and because it’s mostly self-published I want to spread the word as much as I can. From my Goodreads review: The Wool Omnibus [...]
I was put off by this New York Times Review of A Game of Thrones on HBO and penned a letter to its author. The letter is reproduced below: Dear Ms Bellafante, I was excited to see a review of A Game of Thrones in the New York Times, but I was put off by [...]
I’m always up for a thriller starring Matt Damon, so when The Adjustment Bureau came out, I was excited to see it. In preparation of watching the movie, I read the incredibly short story it was based on by Philip K. Dick called The Adjustment Team. The bare-bones story set up the premise for the [...]
Earlier, I wrote an angry post after seeing, yet again, that the ebook version of a book was more expensive than the physical version of it. In my mind, that made no sense. Ebooks are virtual, are not printed on paper, do not take up shelf space, and don’t cost any money to ship (other [...]
I’ve had my kindle for my than a year. I now read more than I ever did thanks to the portable, electronic book platform. But one thing I do not like about it is when publishers pull shit like this. The virtual “oh you don’t really own it, you just kind of get the right [...]
At work today, I was stuck on an odd bug that had to deal with a datetime column. Or so I thought. Perhaps I just discovered the secret to time travel. Observe: >> “2010-10-10″.to_time => Sun Oct 10 00:00:00 UTC 2010 >> “112-01-20″.to_time => Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 UTC 2012 Apparently, there’s some weirdness with [...]
