by Jim Stitzel | Oct 22, 2009 | General
Welcome to my newly designed and relaunched website. I have long felt that it was time for a clean slate, so to speak, and what you see before you is the beginning of that. I’m hoping that this new site will prove to be a launching point for some of my...
by Jim Stitzel | Jan 7, 2009 | General
Grim, dark, and amazing. B_atman Begins_ was fabulous, an excellent reboot to a cinematic series that had previously been filled with corn and hash and cheesiness more aptly suited for the 1970s TV show than for the silver screen. It was a great flick to bring a...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 31, 2008 | General
IntenseDebate: A commenting system that rocks! A little while back, I heard the news that Automattic, the folks who develop WordPress, acquired a couple of new services. One of these is called “IntenseDebate”:http://intensedebate.com, a dynamic commenting...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 30, 2008 | General
Driving, jumping, crashing, burning. I recently pulled _Burnout: Paradise_ back out of its box and plunked it down in the tray. The reason? My wife bought me a 26″ HDTV for Christmas, which is a huge step up from a 13″ SDTV. Turns out, you can actually see...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 30, 2008 | General
Speed Racer driving toward a win. A lot of reviews of _Speed Racer_ hail it as yet another example of just how far the Wachowski brothers have fallen since _The Matrix_. But I have a hard time identifying anything about the flick to criticize. It’s cheesy and...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 22, 2008 | General
The downside to wearing contact lenses is that some days I forget which ones I’m wearing. So, when I reach up to rub an itch away from my eye, I either end up pushing my contact lens up under my eyelid (very uncomfortable) or leaving a big, greasy smear on my...
