My Largely Abandoned Tumblr: Archive

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FRINGE - "The Equation"

Season 1 - Episode 8 A boy is kidnapped by a woman who uses flashing lights for hypnosis to pull off the abduction. In some of the worst detective work on the show yet (stupid coincidences, obvious holes and errors overlooked), Olivia and Peter put together a few pieces of the puzzle but it’s up to Walter to save the day by returning to the asylum where he was held to question another...

Aug 12th

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FRINGE - "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones"

Season 1 - Episode 7 We meet agent Loeb, friend of Broyles, who’s having his heart squeezed to death by an awkward special effect. Through conversations I slept through, we learn about David Jones, a guy who might know What’s Up but is held in a German prison. Loeb’s probably only got a day to live, which wouldn’t be nearly enough time to get to Germany and pull the...

Aug 11th

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FRINGE - "The Cure"

Season 1 - Episode 6 A drugged woman is dumped outside of a diner. People start bleeding, dying, and it culminates with her head exploding. It’s like Scanners meets The Night Owl Massacre. Some boring TV cop procedural investigation turns up a connection to another (newly) missing girl and a disease they (and others) were getting hush-hush treatments for by INtREPUS, one of Massive...

Aug 10th

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FRINGE - "Power Hungry"

Season 1 - Episode 5 By the end of the prologue, anyone who’s ever watched TV knows what’s going on. Some poor guy, Joseph Meegar, is manifesting electromagnetic power. Telltale signs—flickering lights, computer problems—end up sending him spiraling out of control. The anomalies start stressing him out, which makes his electro-powers flare up, which make him stress more, and so on...

Aug 10th

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FRINGE - "The Arrival"

Season 1 - Episode 4 Now we’re talking. We’re introduced to “The Observer”, who might be a weird guy, or an alien, or a robot, or a weird alien robot, or maybe just some kind of ageless journalist. Whatever he is, he shows up to observe a strange drill-like capsule blasting up from within the earth, and when Olivia’s investigation of the capsule gets her asking...

Aug 7th

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FRINGE - "The Ghost Network"

Season 1 - Episode 3 This poor guy named Roy was one of Walter’s old experiments. They were working on a new spy-proof way to communicate, a psychic frequency energy band that would be sort of like if your radio had a switch for AM/FM/Brainwaves. Apparently someone got it working during Walter’s incarceration, because Roy’s been having visions of Pattern-related events before...

Aug 6th

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FRINGE - "The Same Old Story"

Season 1 - Episode 2 A young woman of questionable decision-making capability finds herself increasingly and alarmingly pregnant only minutes after hanky-pankying, interrupting the probably-also-bad-for-her plans the father was setting up in the bathroom of their hotel. With his plan ruined, he dumps her at a hospital where the rapid pregnancy kills her. The doctors save the child, and are...

Aug 6th

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FRINGE - Pilot

Season 1 - Episode 1 I decided to start watching FRINGE, which means playing catch-up for three seasons before the upcoming fourth season starts airing. We’ll see how it goes. In a much stupider decision, I’ve decided to write about FRINGE. I’m going to take a stab at cataloging my impressions, questions, observations, and terrible jokes for each episode as I watch it. After...

Aug 4th

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Motorstorm Apocalypse

I’ve long enjoyed the community in the Quarter To Three forums for video game news and discussions because I’m a nerd, and they’ve got some of the best nerds around. So I raised my hand when the site owner Tom Chick was taking volunteers to write for the front page. And for some reason he said okay, so I wrote some stuff about a game, and you can read it. But if you’re...

May 13th

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I Live on a Street

I just realized this last night. I lived on a street as a child; the house I grew up in wasn’t on a main road, but was at least one of the primary routes through our suburban neighborhood. It was a street, cars going up and down occasionally. That was the last time I lived on a street. In middle school we moved to a different neighborhood and the house was at the end of a cul-de-sac. In...

Mar 16th

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Beastly: ★

There’s nothing to say about this movie. It’s as terrible as you can imagine. But when my friend starts checking text messages about a half hour in, I’m still the jerk who leans over and tells him to cut it out. “Don’t be that guy,” I insist. That’s just the kind of awesome snob I am. If you can’t stand a movie, walk out, but if you’re going to...

Mar 8th

This too shall pass

I hope you have no idea what I’m talking about, but kidney stones are no fun. I had one just before Christmas in 2007, and it’s not something I’ll soon forget. By the grace of God, I may forget the one from this morning. Rushing out the door without breakfast and kicking off the work day with a discouraging meeting gave me all sorts of good reasons for my stomach to be in knots....

Mar 5th

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Smooooooooth

Sometimes you’re sitting on the couch Netflixing the recently-instantly-watchable Futurama season five and trying to tell yourself it’s as good as the original seasons and then you can’t figure out why the Airplay on your Apple TV isn’t seeing your iPhone (or vice versa, as it turns out), when suddenly Boombastic goes through your head. We’ve all been there....

Mar 3rd

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2011 Oscars

I typed this all up on Facebook just to get it online before the Academy Awards actually aired yesterday. So I can’t imagine anyone would read this here on my abandoned tumblr who hasn’t already read it on Facebook, but I figured I should have a record of this here as well. I watched a lot of movies this year. I realized at some point I’d seen more of the Oscar nominated...

Feb 28th

Happy Birthday Karin!

Happy birthday to my sister Karin!

Jan 18th

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e(ric)-readers

Eric picks up my iPad and pokes around with it while he’s asking me something else. Eric: I brought my Kindle to work today. Me: Why? Eric: … Eric: I can read it in direct sunlight. Me: Eric, you don’t seem like a direct sunlight kind of guy. Eric: Touche. ~fin~

Jul 7th

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Good news, everyone!

Futurama is back! Actually, it started last week, sorry I’m late. Let me make it up to you with an amazing Flickr set of Futurama’s New New York recreated in LEGO.

Jun 28th

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Nicer iOS 4 Wallpapers

iOS 4 brings custom backgrounds to the home screen for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Most of the provided patterns feel too busy or high-contrast once they’re covered with a screen full of app icons, so here are some excellent alternatives. Jim Ray offers the simplest, black with a subtle gradient. Marco also goes for almost-black, but with some texture. Urbanape offers more colorful...

Jun 24th

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Behold, the Bassoforte!

This guy just invented an instrument out of spare parts, and it’s awesome. Few days ago I started thinking about how I could re-purpose the keyboard of the dismantled piano I keep in the garden, so I thought to build a new instrument by combining it with some other parts I had laying around. I ended up with this mechanical hybrid thing I thought to call “Bassoforte” (bass +...

Jun 23rd

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iOS 4 Orientation Lock

From ars technica’s review of iOS 4: Strangely, the orientation lock only seems to be able to lock the screen into portrait mode. You can’t lock a screen into landscape mode—in fact, if you try to invoke the orientation lock while you’re already in landscape mode, the OS will switch back to portrait to lock. As a serial landscape hater, this doesn’t bother me so much...

Jun 22nd

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