Byzantium's Shores
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| Blog Name: | Byzantium's Shores |
| Url: | http://byzantiumshores.blogspot.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | SF and Fantasy, Music, Everything |
| Description: | "The occasional meditations of an unrepentant dreamer": moving through life armed only with my laptop under my arms, my ten-in-one screwdriver in my pocket, and six U-Haul trucks filled with books, CDs, and DVDs. It's a tie-dyed world: boom de yada! |
| Popularity: | 29 Followers |
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Something for Thursday
I've been trying to come up with a rationale for this being apropos of Thanksgiving, but...well, I can see it, and if you can't, then thbbbbpppt! Here is "The Egg Travels", from the Disney film Dinosaur. Music by James Newton Howard.Happy Thanksgiving, all!
I've been trying to come up with a rationale for this being apropos of Thanksgiving, but...well, I can see it, and if you can't, then thbbbbpppt! Here is "The Egg Travels", from the Disney film Dinosaur. Music by James Newton Howard.Happy Thanksgiving, all!
50 films from the Aughts
The other day in Sentential Links I linked two different bloggers who made a list thusly:This list means nothing, except to me. It's a list of 50 movies that gave me pleasure over the past decade. I can say without reservation that I would watch any of these again. Would I say that all of them are great films, however great films are supposed to be defined? Probably not. But that's nothing you need to worry about. Because it's my list.So, here's my list of such films. Some of these I've written about before, and I briefly considered digging back to find their
The other day in Sentential Links I linked two different bloggers who made a list thusly:This list means nothing, except to me. It's a list of 50 movies that gave me pleasure over the past decade. I can say without reservation that I would watch any of these again. Would I say that all of them are great films, however great films are supposed to be defined? Probably not. But that's nothing you need to worry about. Because it's my list.So, here's my list of such films. Some of these I've written about before, and I briefly considered digging back to find their
A warning on comments
Folks, I'm seeing a general up-tick in the number of spam comments making it through the CAPTCHA here over the last few weeks. It's only been about one comment a day, so I can keep manually erasing them when they happen, but if the frequency picks up much more beyond that, I may decide to turn on Comment Moderation (which would mean that all comments would be "held" until I get 'round to publishing them). I'll make that announcement if it becomes necessary, but there it is.By the way, I've also noticed something that Will Duquette noticed: occasional spam comments that are actually "on topic", and only i
Folks, I'm seeing a general up-tick in the number of spam comments making it through the CAPTCHA here over the last few weeks. It's only been about one comment a day, so I can keep manually erasing them when they happen, but if the frequency picks up much more beyond that, I may decide to turn on Comment Moderation (which would mean that all comments would be "held" until I get 'round to publishing them). I'll make that announcement if it becomes necessary, but there it is.By the way, I've also noticed something that Will Duquette noticed: occasional spam comments that are actually "on topic", and only i
A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter
Stuffing: bake it in the turkey, or not?
Stuffing: bake it in the turkey, or not?
Recent Reading....
A grab-bag of brief notes on some nonfiction books I've read recently::: I've checked Infrastructure by Brian Hayes out of the library several times, because it's really very fascinating. Subtitled "A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape", the book is a guided tour through the man-made objects that dominate the landscape of our daily lives. Basically, if you've ever wondered things like why cell-phone transmission towers are triangular in shape, or how shipping ports are designed for maximum efficiency, or what all those objects attached to the power line pole actually are, or how raw materials are extracted from the earth, then this is the book to check out. I
A grab-bag of brief notes on some nonfiction books I've read recently::: I've checked Infrastructure by Brian Hayes out of the library several times, because it's really very fascinating. Subtitled "A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape", the book is a guided tour through the man-made objects that dominate the landscape of our daily lives. Basically, if you've ever wondered things like why cell-phone transmission towers are triangular in shape, or how shipping ports are designed for maximum efficiency, or what all those objects attached to the power line pole actually are, or how raw materials are extracted from the earth, then this is the book to check out. I
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