A glowing review of the PDF DVD over at Flack’s site - maybe it’s just because I slaved over the thing for so long, but I think he liked it better than I did at any point. There’s also some recent activity in the DP forum thread too. As Quark once said, buy early and buy often! I’ve burned a few new copies that I just realized put this thing into its third print run. I’m still trying to see if I can get my act together and at least send a few for someone to have on hand at OVGE, but things have backed off enough that we’re in “burn about 5 at a time, and don’t burn any more until those sell” territory, so I’m not sure if I can work a 20-disc run into the budget in time for the 9th. A lot of these DVD orders are winding up paying for baby chow (well, and daddy chow too - or, in today’s case, a new sack-o’-dog-food) so I’m not throwing the money that comes in at burning a huge number of ‘em in advance at the moment.

In other news, I finally got the Enterprise plaque hung on the door to my game room again, with an addition that would’ve made James T. Kirk’s head explode. I thought it was kinda funny myself - the other sign was a gag gift from someone and here I go finding a use for it.

One last note: I’m apparently never completely out of the gaming scene, because I just discovered that an upcoming repro release of the finished-but-never-released Odyssey2/Videopac game Martian Threat will utilize some artwork I cobbled together just for fun a few years ago. It will debut next month at Eurocon and will get a general (but limited - 100 or so) release afterward, with both PAL and NTSC copies available. The “frame” seen around the artwork here will probably be different, since it will almost certainly be reworked into a more traditional Videopac-style package, but that’s a good thing - there’s a lot of fine detail that would’ve been knocked out by that frame, including the work I did to make the “cockpit” look slimy, organic and alien.

Fun fact: I’ve never actually played Martian Threat before (what with it being a rare unreleased game that I don’t own and all), so I have no idea if the artwork has jack to do with what really happens in the game. You can expect a review in PDF (the site, not the DVD) late this year after I have gotten to play it.

That’s all for now.

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Way to go on BLOWING EVERY POSSIBLE BLOODY SURPRISE FOR NEXT WEEK for those who haven’t seen it yet.

Good God, does no one know how to write and edit promos anymore!?

I think I’ll let Mr. Davison say it for me here:

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So I happened to spot a Usenet posting from Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski that caught my interest. I’m sure some folks are screaming about this, but in a way, I feel like JMS almost came to the same conclusion I did. Here’s what he had to say. Continue Reading »

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So, about three business days ago, I called eBoundhost to cancel the hosting there. Today they refunded the full amount I’d paid them. Good as their word. Still no sign of a refund from Globat. Heh.

Other good news: Phosphor Dot Fossils is nearing completion in database form! The entire arcade section - 200+ entries - is now in the database, and I have deleted the old HTML files. I’ve got fewer than 100 entries left to move over, and most of them are in the 2600 section. I figured, since I’m stuck with Globat for a little bit longer, I’d use the time to get more stuff moved over before we try to migrate again.

I fell in love with a kitten this weekend. Continue Reading »

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You know, anymore, it seems like 50% of everything I blog about has something to do with Doctor Who. I really don’t try to do that deliberately, but it just kinda happens. I’m on a Who high at the moment - even rewatched Turn Left on Sci-Fi tonight. I’ve been kinda bummed lately, so I guess I’m clinging tenaciously to whatever has most recently brought a smile to my face. *shrug*

That also means clinging tenaciously to a certain baby. He’s now cruising around the house under his own power, delighting in his mobility, practicing standing up at every possible opportunity, and finding new and exciting objects that he really shouldn’t even think about putting in his mouth, and yet manages to at least think about doing it anyway. He loves chasing Oberon. Poor Obi woke up today, having slept most of the day away in Evan’s bouncy chair, to find Evan standing over him. You could see the fear: oh my God, he’s going to be able to chase me around now. Today I read him “Sammy, The White House Mouse,” a book that was given to me when I was an extremely young’un - it still has my nameplate sticker in the front of the book. I hadn’t read it in…well…let’s say 30+ years. I’m glad I still have so many of those old books of mine hanging around. (I’m loathe to do away with a book that isn’t a duplicate.) Continue Reading »

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WEIGHT: 10 lbs. CONTENTS: general griping Continue Reading »

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I’d give you my thoughts on the Doctor Who finale, but I decided to just save it for the episode guide this time; you can find it here (but feel free to come back here and comment/debate/tell me I’m as crazy as Davros). For whatever it’s worth, I liked it much better than the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the same name.

In case I haven’t bragged about it enough yet, this week also wraps up our guide to the entire original series; before the new season began, and back when Evan was itty bitty and napping much of the time, I realized that I had 13 gaps in the original series guide, fitting neatly alongside the 13 episodes that were, at the time, still to come from this season. So I watched and/or listened to those episodes that I hadn’t covered, wrote reviews, and rolled them out side-by-side along with the new season episodes. The guide to 45 years of TV Doctor Who on this site is now finished.

So naturally, what’s next is to rewrite it all. Continue Reading »

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Friday was a fun day. A really, really fun day. Where to begin?

Just the fact that people have been responding to the blog again is an indicator that the site’s been a bit more cooperative lately, especially on the database end, so I’ve been taking the opportunity to convert more HTML stuff to database entries while I can, as fast as possible, before I migrate the site to a new hosting service. The past two or three days have seen some really good progress on the Phosphor Dot Fossils front - I’m coming down the home stretch on getting all arcade game entries moved over, and I’m making good progress through the dauntingly large number of Atari 2600 reviews.

And then, all of a sudden, that whole portion of the site…just…stopped…working. Period. Continue Reading »

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