As you may have heard, Guillermo del Toro recently decided that large delays in the production schedule of The Hobbit movies meant that he could no longer commit himself to directing them. He lived in New Zealand for two years working on the project, co-writing the script, designing creatures and settings and planning sequences. But [...]
There’s a lot of hullabaloo on the internet presently about some spurious claims made by famed thumb-haver Roger Ebert, in which he claims that “video games can never be art.” Everyone is attempting to argue with him by giving examples of games that have exceptional cinematics, sound, storytelling, voice acting, etc etc. This is the [...]
I love Google Chrome, especially on my 15-inch laptop screen. the minimal UI saves as much vertical space as possible, which is great for reducing the amount of scrolling I need to do when viewing websites. Lately though, I’ve been noticing a little graphical glitch in the program, and I’m not even using one of [...]
At the end of the spring semester last year, I wrote about my ‘Minimal Hipster PDA’ technique that I planned to use for the following summer session and fall classes. I mentioned that my highfalutin’ task management systems, while usually fairly well thought out, generally get abandoned almost immediately. I hoped my Minimal Hipster PDA [...]
I don’t want to step on the toes of the (excellent) Avoid This Job blog, but I saw this ad in my college’s newspaper, The Royal Purple, and thought it seemed ripe for an Avoid This Job style takedown. First of all, consider the ad’s target market. It’s in a college paper, so it is [...]