It’s hard to believe that Star Trek is 45 years old. Looking back at everything that’s influenced me over the years in a creative sense, it was Star Trek more than anything that drove me as far back as I can remember. My earliest recollection of Star Trek is watching it with my dad in [...]
Sometime around July I wanted to make a list of the changes to the Star Wars Trilogy that I thought were good and bad. I decided to wait until the Blu-Rays were released before creating this list. Now that the Blu-Rays are almost here, some eager beavers were diligent enough to discover what the new [...]
There was a time when I was growing up when it seemed like Hollywood could not put out a bad movie. Starting with “Star Wars” and ending around the time of “Dances With Wolves” and “The Rocketeer”, year after year there was a flood of good movies which are classics to this day. Sometime in [...]
One of the things we like about Geekistry is the interaction we have with fellow geeks during the live recording of the podcast. The commentary from the chat room is a virtual way for us to ‘geek-out’ with you and include you in our conversation. We’ve had so much fun chatting during the live recordings [...]
There was never a phenomenon like Star Wars. Argue what you will about other movies that have come out in recent years, but Star Wars will hold the title of the movie with the biggest cultural impact of all time. What a thrill it was to learn as a kid that a new Star Wars [...]
One shift I had to make when moving to an iPhone was the lack of a real file system. Other phones I used like the Nokia N95 or the Sony Ericsson had a tangible file system that you could navigate through, and apps could access directly. The iPhone doesn’t have such a thing. Either apps [...]
As promised, Apple dropped iOS 5 to everyone this morning. This new update to the iPhone, iPod, and iPad brings a lot of new features to Apple’s mobile devices, some which were sorely needed.
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Superman’s new suit….again?
Getting rid of time zones?
Cinavia’s copy protection on Blu-Rays
The DC reboot controversies
Geekiversary: Highlander and Star Trek
The future of the space program
It’s very rare that I have a hard drive fail on me. I think the last one I had was way back in the Mac OS 9 days. I have a Thermaltake BlacX USB external hard drive adapter that I use when I want to look at some of the backup drives that I have. It’s convenient since I don’t have to reboot my Mac to swap out a hard drive just to look at some project files. There’s one hard drive I use as a backup for my Final Cut Pro projects, as well as other media projects that I worked on, and I back up my iPhoto library to it. I’ve never had an issue with the hard drive before, but that day, it overheated after backing up my iPhoto library with the telltale “k-chunk, k-chunk” sound that signals the death of a hard drive.
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Like most people, I’m plugged in online. As a long time creator of podcasts, I have a kind of public persona that exceeds the average person – I’m me, but I’m also the persona on my shows, and in order to promote them, I have promoted myself over the years. First with MySpace, then with Twitter, then with Facebook. At one point, I had 891 friends on Facebook – a number comprised of a relatively small number of real-world friends and family, and heavily padded by work and social acquaintances, their friends, and fans of my various shows.
Ridley Scott working on not-really-an-Alien-prequel, and a new Blade Runner film.
Is any kind of piracy ok?
Star Wars on Blu-Ray – big pile of poodoo?
Did you get your HP Touchpad?
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