To anticipate and prevent
The 69th Annual World Science Fiction Convention, WorldCon, starts tomorrow. I’m looking forward to meeting some of my favorite authors and getting some books signed. Amusingly enough, I had to actually buy some dead-tree books as I only had kindle versions of a few of my authors. Specifically, Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) who’s book,…
Last night after the Thanksgiving festivities, I sat down to watch some MythBusters. The episode was titled “Inverted Underwater Car”, which turned out to be a revisit of the “Underwater Car” episode from a few years back. MythBusters is always entertaining (doubly so when anything gets blown up. See also: every other episode) and tends…
A long while back when Human Target first came out I did a review. My feelings at the time were “wait and see”. I wasn’t entirely sure if the show would be any good because it spent too much time trying to do too many different things at once. While I never updated the review,…
When Stargate Universe was first on the horizon, I had high hopes for it. After all Stargate SG-1 was awesome, and Stargate Atlantis was just as good, if not better (Editor’s Note: We like to pretend that Stargate Infinity doesn’t exist). Unfortunately, my high hopes for the new series were not to be realized in…
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My first problem with writing this post is: What category do I put it in? I don’t have a category titled “Awesome” and if I made one… this article would sit alone in it. Oh well, instead I’ll just tag it with “Awesome” instead.
So here’s the situation: You want to read some manga offline. This manga is not currently available in print, in the United States. So you go online and start searching for it. Search as you might, you can’t find anywhere that lets you download ALL of. Sure, you can get some of the more recent…
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