Category: the geek life
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Thoughts on The Desolation of Smaug… A small hobbity commentary
I saw The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug this weekend and here are some of my thoughts on it, slightly out of order and really just as they occur to me. My full review can be found here. 1) While I don’t generally mind changes in book-to-movie adaptations, I feel like this movie was strongest when…
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Movie Review: Disney’s Frozen
I’m going to say it up front: Disney’s Frozen is the best animation picture they have put out in years. The animation itself is lovely, the snowy scenes they created are epic in scale and gorgeous, the characters are interesting (and there’s a whole cast of them to boot!), and the story is surprising in…
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Clara Oswald: looking back at “The Bells of St John” and some Wild Speculation about The Time of the Doctor
Tonight I am revisiting the Clara Oswald episodes from this past season of Doctor Who. While watching “The Bells of St John,” I noticed something interesting, a very specific detail that got my mind rambling off (as it does) on all sorts of little theories. I’m going to ramble about them now and see if…
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Movie Commentary: Thoughts on Thor, the Dark World
Here there be Spoilers, Sweetie.
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11 Guilty Pleasures
The other day I was in the craft store, looking at all of the autumny things (as craft stores always have things two months early for MAKING things), and discovered that the GOOD kind of candy corn was in stock. I promptly bought myself two bags. That got me thinking: I know there’s a contingency…
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Thoughts on the Twelfth Doctor
I kept the title basic enough, but you should know this post has SPOILERS, sweetie. So. Peter Capaldi is going to be the new Doctor. I think most of the world collectively said, “Who??” when they made the announcement, but he looked really familiar and it didn’t take me long to find out why. Peter Capaldi…
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Wisdom from The Doctor
Impossible Astronaut Day was the 23rd. I kept finding these weird marks on my arm, but the only thing I heard was silence… Here are eleven things I have learned from The Doctor: The least important things sometimes, my dear boy, lead to the greatest discoveries. 1st Doctor Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one…
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Doctor Who Commentary: Thoughts on Hide
If you haven’t seen this episode yet, just STOP. There are SPOILERS, sweetie!
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Butterbeer at Home
Recently J and I discovered something kind of amazing, and I wanted to share it with you, gentle reader. A few years ago, Hogsmeade opened for touring to the Muggle population, in an outreach effort and demonstration of goodwill to the non-magical community. Until recent times, the only place a wizard (or visiting Muggle) could purchase butterbeer was…
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Confessions of a PC owner
I’m sitting here waiting for some stuff to finish uninstalling from my computer (spring cleaning happens EVERYWHERE in this house), so I thought I’d make some observations about my almost six-year-old computer. In the interest of full disclosure, you should know that I’m not what you might call computer savvy. I’m very social-network-savvy (at least,…
Joanna Volavka 