Tales from the Technoverse

Category: Entertainment

  • My Thoughts About Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens

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    If you have not seen the new Star Wars film and do want to know anything about its plot, do not read this post. So a couple of weeks ago, Ellen and I went to see the new Star Wars movie. To be upfront about it, it was more of a check-the-box thing for me;…

  • Departures – Worth Viewing

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    The story concerns a young couple, the film begins with the husband, Daigo, a cellist whose orchestra goes out of business, needing a job. He answers an ad which says that applicants do not have to have a lot of experience, the position is high paying, and the work is with “departures”. Thinking it might…

  • Firefly Is Everywhere

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    Some blog posts I write are actually written hoping someone will read them, in particular when I discuss technology or sometimes political topics. Some blog posts are random musings on some aspect of entertainment and while I am unsure as to whether I add serious value to the public square they are least are comprehensible. Some blog…

  • Today’s Argument – Biopic

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    I have had the fortune to spend much of the last 30-some years being improved by Ellen. Remarkably I find that no matter how much she corrects, I still have much work that is needed to be done. The context of this thought resulted from my mentioning this morning that there is a new biopic…

  • The Importance of Storytelling

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    Over the last year or so, I decided to focus a bit more on academic opportunities. I have attempted to become a better professor at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), helped start a non-profit focused on increasing academic involvement with government (ATARC), and this semester signed up for two graduate courses at the University…

  • Gone Girl

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    Last night, as part of the Ellen birthday set of events, culminating in her long-desired trip to New Orleans in December, we went to see Gone Girl (chosen as an alternative to Nightcrawler, and partially because Ellen does not want to see a key character that reminded her of the Michelin tire guy). I am not…

  • In A World …

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    Finished watching Lake Bell‘s In A World. This continues the sequence of woman written, often directed, and starred in films that I have watched over the last month. The story is about a woman, well-duh, who, like her much more successful father, is in the “world of movie-trailer voiceovers”. If nothing else, I learned that…

  • Two Kid’s Movies This Week

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    This last week was, among other things (like seeing Fleetwood Mac), a week for watching “young person’s” movies. Our entire family went to the theater to see The BoxTrolls. The BoxTrolls is a stop-motion film about, well, trolls who wear boxes, live underground, and raise an orphaned human boy called Eggs. The bad guy, voiced…

  • Fleetwood Mac

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    It never ceases to amaze me that the reason we were at our second Fleetwood Mac concert in recent years is because our daughters have demanded that we go. Well, have demanded that we go so we can buy tickets for them to go. Fleetwood Mac!! This is a band I listened to when I…

  • Ruby Sparks plus a Discovery

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    I finished watching Ruby Sparks this morning. Ruby Sparks is a ‘cute’ rom-com (romantic comedy) about a lonely author with writer’s block who writes about his perfect, albeit imaginary girl friend, Ruby Sparks. After doing so, suddenly she is there in his apartment. What seems like a perfect situation, perfect only because of the limited male…