So, for the first time tonight, during the umpteenth time of watching Groundhog Day (which is an excellent, excellent movie, by the by), my wife pointed out that it features two songs from other time warp/travel movies, namely Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, which forms the basis for John Barry’s score for Somewhere…
Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
Memoriam: A Requiem for Mr. Rogers
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The life of the late Fred Rogers will be celebrated here next month with an 11-movement composition titled Memoriam: A Requiem for Mr. Rogers. The genial Rogers became famous around the world as the sweater-wearing host of the PBS program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He died last year. The one-hour piece will…
Maestro
Yes, now you, the lowly science geek, can now use the same maestro software that the big boys use for… well, for controlling the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover. No kidding. Of course, you can’t control the MER yourself, but you can download data from the Mars mission and analyze the images on your own personal…
Dogtown and Z-Boys
A really slickly edited documentary about the evolution of 70s surfing into what we know as modern skateboarding. I never really got into the whole skate “scene,” probably mostly since even when I was young enough to not worry about my own mortality, I had nowhere near the coordination (or, honestly, mere lack of clumsiness)…
(Lea)rning Japanese
So, I’d like to learn Japanese. I’d also like to learn Gaelic, and Latin, and take acting lessons and… there’s something else that The Evil Schmoo and I both want to take classes for. I can’t recall what it is now. Anyway, I was looking on Peter Payne’s web page (he’s the guy who also…
Good Eats Geek Code
Yes, yes… So, I’ve TiVo’d up sixteen episodes over the past couple of weeks, and watched them all today while I offloaded them for making DVDs. So, I’m a whore for Alton brown. What of it? Anyway… Here’s mine: GE+++AB+W+MB+PM-SC+MFC+DD++CR+CH+e++sc+++pt+++rec+>++tg+++tf?FPFTV?YC?YG? What’s yours?
TiVo and the Insidious Feature Creep
Well, I signed up on my TiVo for a free one-month trial of their Home Media Option because… well, because all it took to sign up was a click on a button on my remote, and because it sounded pretty cool– TiVo access to my server full of digital music in iTunes, playback of slideshows…