I’m putting Pop Astronaut on hiatus for awhile. It’s not that I don’t enjoy posting on pop culture and science fiction, I just find that I have more to say on a daily basis about my professional and creative life. I’ve also started to feel that I’d like to focus my reflection and […]

I spent a few minutes playing with the Mac version of Joost this evening and came away feeling ambivalent. The interface is beautiful, almost like a blend of Apple’s Front Row and Dashboard, and the speed and quality of the video is impressive. However, in terms of content, the “future of television” looks […]

After a link from Make to this whiteboard animation tutorial on instructables, I found this great whiteboard toon on YouTube. I smell a project!
…ew.

I have a art-crush on Daily Monster. How does he manage the animation on a daily basis? People are amazing.

I’ve been on a sci-fi and fantasy reading jag this month with The Caves of Steel (good), Paladin of Souls (very good), The Naked Sun (good), Throne of Jade (meh), and Foundation (as dry as I remembered, but ultimately good.) I just started Charles Stross’s Singularity Sky which is kind of like William Gibson and […]

Just when I’d started to put aside the nerd football hatred I’ve carried since high school, the Super Bowl keeps us from a new episode of Battlestar Galactica. Damn you football! I’d like to see the Colts take on The Caprica Buccaneers in Pyramid.

I think that I’m truly antisocial at heart. Four hours of business casual schmoozing, it’s no wonder I slept until 2 this afternoon.
Reading a bunch of Issac Asimov; old-school scifi at it’s best. This morning, I’m trying to figure out the three laws of me.