Pandoran Information Systems

A quick thought about Avatar…

Wasn’t the evil corporation in Avatar missing a huge potential profit center by ignoring the ways in which the Nav’i uploaded and downloaded information thru their network of trees?

We’re essentially talking about organic computers, aren’t we. The information techmology possibilities are staggering, to say the least. It makes my [...]

Careers out of Passions of Worth

While watching the Oscars on Sunday, I was struck by the obvious passion of and ridicule engendered by actors and those in the film industry. They dream all their lives of winning an Oscar and when the moment comes, many get blubbery, fumble with their speeches, take too much time and then get cut off [...]

Fighting for Substance

A quarter-life crisis to be followed by a mid-life crisis to be followed by a late-life crisis to be followed by death

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and the subsequent movie starring Ed Norton, Jr and Brad Pitt, I think, serves as one of the great stories about modern man’s dissatisfaction with his lot in [...]

Star Trek Review

I saw Star Trek this weekend and it was excellent!! Lots of explosions, evil aliens and attractive people. It was just a fun, fun movie.

This Star Trek movie really has a lot for folks who have experience with the Trek franchise and those who know nothing about it. I love how they put all [...]

X-Men Origins & Movie Reviews

The early critics’ reviews of the new movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as well as a perusal of Rotten Tomatoes have not been good. The PG gave it 1 1/2 stars. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an aggregate 37%, with the top critics landing it an abysmal 18%.

This reminds me of a [...]