Reactuate

I’m back and have a new time wasting addiction - Eve Online.
I saw it at MacWorld and it looked cool. There is an online game bouncing around in my head and this looked a lot like it. It is more of a strategy game like Civilization than an RPG like WOW. So I downloaded [...]

For Christmas I asked for and got World War Z and the The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. I haven’t really read the survival guide much and haven’t finished WWZ, but I have to give it a major thumbs up.
WWZ is one of the best written books I’ve read in a long time. [...]

Michael Williamson has a new Freehold universe novel coming out beginning of November. The first nine chapters are available online. You can also get the whole thing via webscription.
I think it is pretty good based on what I’ve read. Its a little rough at first because he introduces a bunch of characters and it [...]

On the way in to work I was listening to the NPR Podcast Pop Culture and one segment was interviewing two women who wrote the children’s book version of Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. At one point one of the women was telling a story about a little girl who had gone home from school and [...]

I finally got around to watching Shooter last night. I’d mentioned the movie in an earlier post because Front Sight trained Mark Walberg to be a sniper. Well if you watch the Making Of special feature on the DVD you’ll see a lot of Front Sight. The main sniper consultant on the film was [...]

Video of a cop getting shot after pepper spraying someone.
A crazy and disturbing video. The cop finally stops a car after a chase, gets out and casually walks up the driver’s window and sprays a can a pepper spray. And then as if that had rendered the guy unconscious or something, turns and walks away. [...]

A model friend of my Tiffany Karns is the girl in the corvette. And the song is too true.

For my parting post here’s great parody of where Star Wars came from.