Month: May 2016

I swear to God, I am going to organize myself better.

Time management, that’s the ticket.  Although I’m doing better: I actually got the end-of-month stuff done before 11 PM!  Now I’m just letting my brain reset so that I can proofread with a fresh eye and maybe catch more errors that way.

Heck, these days I’m actually proofreading. Clearly, I am now a tool of the Man.  Which should be at least more relaxing than being the actual Man itself. As Diane Duane might say, this way I don’t have to approve all the timesheets.

Sequel to… Mary Poppins?

Did we know about this?

Walt Disney Pictures has officially announced that Golden Globe Award winner Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, the upcoming Girl on the Train) and Emmy, Grammy, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Hamilton,” “In the Heights”) are set to star in Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to the studio’s 1964 classic, Mary Poppins, which will be released on December 25, 2018.

…because I feel like I knew about this already, somehow. Although, truth be told… the era that this movie is from isn’t really my scene.  Early Sixties stuff often isn’t; I’m down with the Atomic Horror stuff in the 1950s and the Golden Age of Dystopian Movies in the 1970s, but that period in-between isn’t reliably in my wheelhouse.  When it comes to that decade it’s pretty much war movies for me and not much else.

So I dunno if I’m going to be all that outraged, honestly. I mean, it might not suck on its own merits.

Fallout 4 mods live on Xbox One.

I’m going to be nice and not write that out as ‘live,’ despite the reports of connectivity issues. Of course there’s going to be connectivity issues. They’re giving people mods on consoles for the first time; it’s a special miracle that the whole thing didn’t implode into a singularity on the spot.

Mind you, I can’t directly report on this. First off, I don’t have an Xbox One. Even if I did, I wouldn’t be switching over to the console version of Fallout 4 any time soon: there are some serious limitations to mods on the consoles, and I don’t mean the nudity ban (2 gig limit on mods, for one thing). Still, it’s pretty awesome that Bethesda is expanding access like this. Brave new world, and all that…

Tweet of the Day, I Remember Having Stuff Like This In College edition.

Although dear GOD but I didn’t know the first thing about properly hanging pictures back then. I’d buy a print and wouldn’t frame it; instead, I’d stick it to the wall with some of that Fun-Tac stuff that the school hated (in retrospect, fairly) and vainly hope that it wouldn’t fall off (and rip) before the end of the school year. And then I’d do it again in September, because apparently I learned nothing from the experiment.

Still: I’d put this on my wall. Properly framed and mounted, of course.