Dark Matter, based on the novel by Blake Crouch, is about a Jason Dessen, a scientist who is kidnapped by his duplicate from another univer...

I am not a bumper sticker guy. But at this moment, every little gesture of support for federalism matterss.   

British studio Hammer Films has created nearly 300 movies spanning the genres, but they're best known for the science fiction, horror, a...

Here I am in 1986 playing Ultima IV. But check out the wall to my left; I used adhesive to affix floppy disc sleeves to the wall next to our...

Besides, Manhattan Transfer has already been done. On the other hand, why shouldn't there be a Canadian version? We have bigger islands...

The good (evil) folks at ENCOM created an all time arcade classic back in 1982--SPACE PARANOIDS. Can you navigate the maze and destroy the l...

Fall up the trap door Into blackest space descend Never to return  

  Once again--Geekquinox. Autumnal. Best of, the second time around. Two absent, stricken by illness and injury. We who remained--carrying o...

Lucille Ball nailing a serious role. A b-picture with cheap sets and special effects, but also a compelling high-stakes story and actors wit...

 

No to the nine misleading, leading, unrealistic, and misguided questions, yes to staying in Canada.   

Having reached a certain age, I had my lower legs analyzed today. The nurse used a blood pressure cuff that transmitted the sound of my hear...

Another artifact from Mom and Dad's effects--a photo of Dad's dad in a frame made of orange and blue thread wrapped around a metal o...

I have vague memories of watching Mom and Dad using rifles to shoot tin cans in the forests of Leaf Rapids. This would have been before Sean...

Restoring art, restoring photos, restoring buildings or furniture or people; no matter how skilled the technique, the original remains well ...

At about the 20-minute mark of "Charlie X," young Charlie Evans plays a very short, one-sided game of three-dimensional chess agai...

Here's a postcard I recently scanned, found in Mom and Dad's stuff.  According to Gemini--so who knows if this information is correc...

Here's a scan of a photo of my paternal grandfather in a small metal and glass photo frame.   

 

One of Dad's patches. I hope he had  good time.   

(Over 1,900 of these are shorts.)   

Lego's TOS bridge set includes some neat easter eggs, including your choice of alert condition lights for the top centre of the astrogat...

For the very first time, I have a tiny representation of the bridge of the USS Enterprise in my office. Building Lego's 1701 bridge took...

 

Mom and Dad won a Communities in Bloom award for their yard in 2009. They earned it.