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February 28, 2006
MrTact has a blog!
Who knew? Not I! But now we both do. Go read it. His most recent entry takes issue with Mr. Koster's MMO lament.
Posted by SunSword at 12:18 PM | Comments (0)
February 20, 2006
American Gods
Lastnight I finished up American Gods by Neil Gaman. This is a very popular book having won many awards and I was quite looking forward to it. However, I felt somewhat let down after I turned the last page.
The book contains excellent characters based on some interesting historical and mythological tidbits, as well as a plot with an decent if not unsurprising twist.
Unfortunately it fell flat for me, while I thought the main character Shadow was interesting, I didn't really care about him other than to feel sorry for him. He didn't change really, he didn't overcome anything, he just was. And in the end, he wasn't much of anything.
With the title "American Gods" and all the hype surrounding the book, I suppose I was looking for something more earth-shattering. Perhaps a fundamental change in the way we think about deities. Alas, it's nothing more than a bit of a mythological suspense-thriller.
I won't say "don't read it," but if you do, be prepared to be immersed in a dark world filled with a poorly developed cast of mythological misfits.
Posted by SunSword at 02:44 AM | Comments (0)
February 10, 2006
Check this out!
Multi-touch highdef touch screen technology. You have to watch the movie to understand how cool this is. It makes the stupid interface scenes from movies like Minority Report and Jonny Mneumonic seem plausible.
Posted by SunSword at 06:37 AM | Comments (0)