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Google Alert Failures

As you may know, I have a number of google alerts running to keep me appraised of any occurrence of people talking about me. Which they don’t do nearly as much as I would like. So many of the google … Continue reading

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An Austin creek in miniature

You know how you can have a whole lot of really important things to do, but you end up doing something random and weird and you just can’t stop yourself? That’s what happened to me this week when I made … Continue reading

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Cryobev on the run

I brought out the Cryobev3000 for an out-of-town guest recently. There have been a number of improvements to the design. For one, I’ve externalized the powersupply and added the option to run it off a 12v laptop charger (which used … Continue reading

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Up close and personal with the giant squid

Friend of Space Squid and author of Last Dragon J.M.McDermott was kind enough to send us photos of the preserved corpse of a giant squid he saw at the Goergia Aquarium in Atlanta. We are informed that it’s preserved in … Continue reading

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Raccoon!

can you spot the three raccoons in this photo?

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Is this racist?

They were selling this at the bakery for Cinco de Mayo.

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Things to Come

Now I’d like to talk about a pretty amazing movie I just saw, "Things to Come," a 1936 movie based on the story by H.G. Wells. I got this off one of the public domain movie RSS channels on Miro. … Continue reading

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More petty venting about movies

During the May movie Revcast, after hearing the synopsis for "Battle for Terra", Gary commented that he was worried about being hit with the message stick. To which Deanna replied, "It’s a Canadian film, of course it has a big … Continue reading

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Star Trek: meh.

While I thought that Star Trek was a perfectly adequate summer movie, there is no way that it’s worth the hype (and I would say that it probably wasn’t worth a 9 out of 10 on the RevSF rating system, … Continue reading

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Camo bug

While sitting out on a back porch, we noticed a number of bugs with debris and detritus on their back. Even squinting it’s hard to tell that there’s a living animal there. Here’s a youtube link of the thing running … Continue reading

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