Category Archives: Reviews
Posted on 29-Apr-2008
I've been using GreenCine's DVD rental service for over a year. On the whole, my opinion of GreenCine has become pretty much similar to that of Netflix. Both are slow with delivery. Furthermore, both have huge catalogs, yet they almost never respond to customer suggestions for DVD additions.
Shipping was damn ...
Posted on 25-Apr-2008
For the longest time I wouldn't read non-fiction books outside of work or school. "What is this non-fiction for pleasure you speak of?" The key wasn't to follow what's necessarily popular, best-sellers on history, politics, or purely goal-oriented how-to books. The key was to start with my gut-level (as it ...
Posted on 07-Apr-2008
Oh, how I love pupusas: The creaminess of cheese and masa, with tidbits of chicken if I'm lucky. A fine reason to seek out eateries that focus on food from El Salvador. Not quite as well-known as Mexican food, Salvadoran cuisine tends towards the mild.
The Salvadoran version of horchata is ...
Posted on 05-Apr-2008
Last year I had eagerly anticipated the arrival of the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL). Entries on individual species became viewable on 28 February, a few months earlier than the projected mid-2008 deadline. Coolness!
Currently they have twenty-four exemplar species pages, tens of thousands of authenticated (but not detailed) species pages, and ...
Posted on 16-Mar-2008
Last month Kam was clearing out a bunch of her comics, and while going through the boxes, I came upon five later issues of Scott McCloud's Zot! Seeing them reminded me that I had only the first three graphic novels (the only three Kitchen Sink Press published before they ...
Posted on 11-Mar-2008
This is the first year we decided to not see any of the shorts collections at Cinequest. Instead we watched five films from around the globe. So how did the 18th Annual San José Film Festival go?
The Aerial (La Antena). Directed by Esteban Sapir, Argentina 2006, black and white. In ...
Posted on 27-Jan-2008
Why bother rereading books at all? Isn't it like, as Pink Floyd put it, merely "running over the same old ground,"(*) avoiding going forward or ignoring new stories?
Nope, not at all! Reading a favorite book again is like eating one's favorite comfort dish. Something to curl up with and savor. ...
Posted on 04-Oct-2007
A couple of friends have posted responses to LibraryThing's top unread books lists. Aha! I thought, a good way to write about books I have (or, er, haven't) read.
This is a popular blogging meme, yet none of the blogs (mostly on LiveJournal) include a link to the actual list —perhaps ...
Posted on 17-Sep-2007
I'm looking for a flexible (if not powerful) online gallery package. What are the free, preferably open source choices for online galleries? There are quite a few!
Wikipedia has a photo gallery comparison article. However, it's not comprehensive since it's a stub which needs cleanup (e.g., lists only basic features, and ...
Posted on 11-Sep-2007
The feature-length animé Paprika has been my favorite movie this year. (Easily surpassing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, fun as it was, as well as the films seen at Cinequest. Yes, I rarely go out for movies.) Directed by Satoshi Kon, who worked on Perfect Blue and ...
