Happy New Year! With the start of a new year, large numbers of people people make resolutions to lose weight or to get fit. This is admirable sentiment and one which I fully support. I personally have made this resolution many times throughout my life and have only been able to accomplish it in the past year […]
Necessity is the mother of invention. To increase productivity, mankind needed an efficient way to illuminate the night. So, Heinrich Goebel invented the light bulb and Thomas Edison, needing to be rich, stole that invention. Guys like me needed to be able to sit through all three Director’s Cuts of The Lord of the Rings […]
There has been a lot of talk, a lot of hype ever since the iPad was announced. How it would be a revolution, a game changer. OK, you have your shiny new “magical” device, you’ve played with all the preloaded apps, surfed the web, watched a movie, experienced a sense of childlike wonder, blah blah. […]
So the big news, all over the web today is about Apple’s tablet product, now officially called the iPad. Of course there are all sorts of detractors already, and all sorts of people ready to jump on the bandwagon for the product. There are all sorts of articles online that talk about the positives and […]
This post will be at the top THROUGH TUESDAY! Scroll down for all the latest news! In our 21st show,we chat with comic book retailer Greg Thompson, owner/operator of Local Heroes Comics in Norfolk, Virginia. Local Heroes is a different kind of comic shop and Greg is a different kind of store owner. He’s got […]
My mind is on my thumb drive. Not that I’m thinking about it, but that I’m thinking about. At least, my creative mind. Everything I’ve written and drawn in the past couple of years is contained on this ridiculously tiny little device (it would only make me sad if I mentioned how little space that […]
It isn’t just the smug, self-satisfied, near-cultish, outsider mentality that they foster for themselves and their fans. It isn’t that this outsider mentality is based on almost totally false pretenses. After all, the iPhone is the best selling phone in history. And when most people think of MP3 players, they think of iPods. In fact, […]
I came across this little gem over the weekend, a video demo-ing a comic shop locator for iPhone. Okay, first… too damned cool. Second? Who’s releasing it? The YouTube entry is posted by Diamond Comics, who distribute comics and created the web incarnation of the Comic Shop Locator. Okay, but who is developing this thing? […]
Sometimes I feel like a monkey. You know what I mean. Too much crap, not enough time. This past weekend for instance… between working in the yard Friday night as well as all day Saturday and Sunday, social commitments and quality time with the missus, there has been remarkably little time for geekery. Sure, I […]
I’ve tried a lot of comic readers for iPhone and have been unhappy with what I’ve seen. Largely, my dissatisfaction with those apps grows from a poorly imagined transition from print comic to PDA. Much of what I’ve seen fails to consider the differences in medium and the specifics challenges of a digital handheld device. […]