In the new movie Saving Mr. Banks, director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) tells the tale of how Hollywood mastermind Walt Disney finally convinced Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers to sign over the rights to make the Mary Poppins movie, which is still considered one of the greatest films to date. What is
It was time to go to art school, and I was in need of a computer on the go. While my Compaq Presario had served me well, I made a pit stop at the Apple store to make a pretty expensive purchase. From that moment, I’ve been using the Mac OS X, and while I’ve always
We’re back for another round of long walking in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. We pick up right where the first movie ended: Bilbo, along with Gandalf and Thorin Oakenshield and his twelve companions, continue east to the edge of the forest of Mirkwood where they encounter a skin-changer, are attacked by
While mobile phones are getting smarter, they still require power to run. Plugging your smartphone in before bed has almost become just as important as brushing ones’ teeth. And one thing to be said about charging devices: it never looks pretty. Generally you’ll find a power strip overloaded with a metric ton of chargers and
Lexicon is, for me, one of those books where it’s past midnight and you think “Okay, I really need to get some sleep, I need to put the book down right now. So I will read one more chapter, and that’s it.” And four chapters later you think “Okay, maybe I’ll just have an extra
It seems like just yesterday that we were booting up our consoles and PCs and loading them up with “Battlefield 3”. But, alas, that was two long years ago. The good news, however, is that we have a brand new “Battlefield” game to sink tens of thousands of hours into. Now normally, there was a
Chances are good you already know that the first issue of Neil Gaiman’s new Sandman series was released this past October; as one of the best-selling comics of 2013, it created quite a splash. What you may not know (I didn’t, but I’m easily distracted) is that for every issue of the series, one month
Danger Danger Danger Danger: “The how-to projects in this book involve electricity, explosions, toxic substances, sharp tools, contents under pressure and other potentially dangerous elements…remember the instructions in the book are not meant to be a substitute for your good judgment and common sense.” Enter at your own risk.
I only meant to read the first 100 pages of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave, in an attempt to get familiar with some of the science-fiction that was published this year (somehow I spent most of the year reading older books.) Then I almost didn’t finish the first 50 pages, because I didn’t think I