Failing again. Failing better.
Remember the Air Force’s secret space plane, the X-37B? If you don’t, I talked about it here, here, and here. Launched in March of last year, the X-37B was originally supposed to return from space after only 270 days. Now it is scheduled to land sometime in mid-June. So what was the secret mission? What…
Take a look at the latest trailer for the new Bourne movie. So Renner is Bourne 2.0? A Super Bourne? Interesting. It looks like we may get a better handle on what it takes to make a Bourne, and it looks like Renner’s Bourne may not be the blank slate he was in the first…
I may be ahead of the curve on some things (See, e.g., my review of REDSHIRTS, coming out June 5), but I am also way behind on some things. For example, I am only now reading George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg. I also just finished the 2007 book THE NAME OF THE…
Big-Hearted Characters Think and Joke their Way through a Broken Reality REDSHIRTS, the latest book by John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) doesn’t come out until June 5, but fans of Star Trek, sci fi, comedy, and Scalzi’s nerdy snark should pre-order the book now. One of the classic Star Trek tropes was that when an away…
Over Memorial Day weekend, I travelled to Boston for my sister’s wedding. Everything went off without a hitch. It was fun, beautiful, and it really incorporated some elements that were unique to the couple, namely a Neil Gaiman poem, a Battlestar Galactica reference, and performances by the members of the groom’s a cappella group. Good…