Does the ‘Why’ Matter?
Check out this interesting article about writing. Excerpt: “If you think of Groundhog Day — the only whys that are ever explored is the whys behind the individual choices Bill Murray makes during his endlessly repeating day. What you are NOT ever given the...Everything Bad Is Good for You, T.V., Reading and Video Games
Been doing a fair amount of offline reading so haven’t had as much to write about. Read Everything Bad Is Good for You and was pretty impressed. The book starts as almost a defense of video games as a complex medium, despite it’s being maligned at best as...Podcast roundup: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web
Just saw one of the best TED talk videos I’ve ever seen: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com. Basically tells a familiar story of the convergence of web and media that was covered in so many classes I TAed at UCSC and gives a glimpse of what...Scare Tactics FTW!
Much to my delight Scare Tactics has been posted on Hulu. I had all but forgotten about the show that originally aired a few years ago — with host Shannon Doughtery when recently I saw an ad for an updated version with host Tracy Morgan. The problem with my...The Obsolete Man
Just saw an interesting episode of the Twilight Zone; The Obsolete Man. Though it’s overtly a commentary on fascism it is all somehow relatable. I see myself in the little librarian played by Burgess Meredith. Not that I’m an avid reader (skipping of...About Nate
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Blogging (here) since 2005
