Category: screens & pages

When I watch or read or play something worth writing about, you may find those writings here.

  • reviews: wet hot summer

    reviews: wet hot summer

    Maybe I’m solar powered. I certainly feel like I have a lot more energy these last couple of months with the sun out and my motivation levels surging. I’ve been reading a lot and listening a lot and enjoying interesting shows on the teevee. I can’t be bothered to write a review of every bit

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  • media reviews: a lack of independence

    media reviews: a lack of independence

    All work and no play make Brad a dull guy. I’ve been working on real projects, too, but I still find a lot of time to dabble in entertaining myself with no hidden agenda. This past month I’ve been stoking the seeds of rebellion and growing virtual canola, but not necessarily in that order. I’ve

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  • book reviews: from a heat wave

    book reviews: from a heat wave

    There is never a bad excuse to read, but hunkered in the cool basement to avoid the hot weather nursing a cold Coke and speed running some fanciful fiction is better than many.  I won’t tell you that there is either rhyme or reason to my recent picks besides that I’m on a bit of

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  • book reviews: no rules

    book reviews: no rules

    Barely twenty four hours after I finished reading Dust (which I reviewed in a post now barely a day old) I finished yet another thick tome of a novel which I had been reading concurrently: the second book of the Hyperion Cantos. There are no rules about all this reading books and writing reviews, are

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  • game con-spiration

    game con-spiration

    I’ve been a lazy game developer lately.  A couple months ago I was proudly telling people how much progress I was making on Pleck’s Mart. Heck I was logging at least—at least—a couple hours every day adding to the code base and debugging the game and making art and then sitting at the cafe writing

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