Assorted Reviews

[Originally created a week ago and just completed/posted today]
I haven't blogged in a while, so I thought I would run down some of the excellent media experiences I've encountered recently.

Jak II. Extremely entertaining. Mix the first J&D game with some Grand Theft Auto and you have a compelling gameplay experience. It was [...]

Knock Me Over With A Feather

I came across this one on the Corner today and I have to say I have a completely new view on Patricia Heaton. I loaded up Ms. Lopez's link to Feminists for Life and was greeted by the smiling visage of Ms. Heaton, credited as honorary chair. I was blown away. How [...]

Blogging from LinuxWorld

I'm sitting here in the email garden at the Javitz center in NYC having just come from RedHat's booth. They're pushing RHEL v3 (no surprise) but I did manage to get a set of 3 Fedora CDs off them. I'll try to grab a cap from them ~12pm today.
Will blog more on this [...]

Blogging From The In-Laws

A few quick words, if I may.

Bubba Ho-Tep rocked. Saw it at the Angelika in Dallas with my Father and Brother-in-law. Will definitely be looking forward to the DVD.
The Vikes suck. Losing to the Cardinals to get bounced from the playoffs? I can't even explain the disappointment.
Sunday's Pearls Before Swine [...]

Return of the King

My wife, 5 friends and I viewed RotK at the local cinema house last night 'twixt the hours of 7 and 11 in the evening. I must say that my feelings on the movie are decidedly mixed.
As Jonah Goldberg noted in his review of the film, it does stay true to the overarching themes [...]

DC 0.5 Is Out

Maybe I'll finally be able to get my hands on the Fedora ISOs since Desert Combat 0.5 is out and all those bandwidth hogs'll go from /.'ing Ibiblio to FilePlanet instead.

May God Have Mercy on Their Souls

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the 13 soldiers killed by jihadi vermin this morning.
They were on their way to Baghdad Int'l Airport to come back to the states for R and R.
As my mother once put it: "All the bad words I know." May we find [...]