Infinite Lives » Not Games

Be back in a bit!

librarian — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:23:42 +0000

Sincere apologies for the protracted absence! (Inexplicably, though: now more spam comments than ever before. What the…?)

In the short interim before resumption, here is a video, embedded below, that popped up in my YouTube subscriptions the day before yesterday. It heralds what is sure to be the winter season’s hottest fad, the PES Fireplace Screensaver.

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]

P.S. Still here? Perhaps you are wondering how PES correlates with videogames? This is how.

Waiter, waiter, there’s a Jawa in my lunch

librarian — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:09:25 +0000

OK, OK. The photo itself is from a few months ago, apparently, and this really doesn’t have anything to do with video games, I know. But I figure Star Wars devotees and video game players might have overlapping cultural interests, and anyway, I liked this. Ready?

The entire Bento Challenge flickrpool is well worth checking out, but Rena’s contributions to the group are just astonishing:

Flickr – 20080530 :: bento diary :: tatooine (via)

Children of Men not a big hit among local book club members

librarian — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:05:01 +0000

My e-friend Nathaniel Payne lives in a small town in America’s heartland. Recently, his town’s local book club agreed to read The Children of Men, a science fiction novel that takes place in the near future (2021, if you’re curious). The Children of Men is generally acknowledged as a pretty good book: it was adapted into a blockbuster feature film, which I own on DVD but have never watched.

Apparently the novel garnered unfavorable reviews from the book club’s members, which resulted the following news item in the town’s local newspaper:

Nerdflood – “We all agreed that we really don’t know what will happen in the future”

Blown glass rayguns

librarian — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35:49 +0000

In my five years of collecting rayguns, I’ve learned to never buy or display anything too pricy… or priceless. Anytime a guest drops by, his instinct is to immediately swipe the raygun from the shelf, wield the gun in his right hand, and roughly depress the trigger several times, eliciting that satisfying rat-a-rat-a-whir from the gun’s bellows—it sounds like, if nothing else, a hard drive crashing.

But as of right now, I am willing to make an exception to my No Delicate Rayguns policy.

Blogger Michael Pinto located these gorgeous blown-glass rayguns, which are crafted by Joe Blow Glassworks’ Jeff Burnette.