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Twenty-three Skid-to-doo

Well, I figured before the last list hit three years old, I'd better replace it with a new one - clean out the completed projects, update existing ones, and add a few more. Latest updates are in red.   Homebrews in development:   Rip Off (was "Zombie Project (does not contain any actual zombies)")* Game graphics: In-progress. Development status: Early proof-of-concept build. 1-10-24: First pass at new graphics complete. 1-14-24: Added to to-do list. 2-1
Nathan Strum

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True Grit (it's Jeff Bridges month at the movies!)

In this film, an old, fat, bearded Jeff Bridges mumbles his way through a script that at times is largely incoherent.   Oh wait... I think that was supposed to be part of my Tron: Legacy review.   I went out and saw True Grit today. Being a fan of the original (with John Wayne) I half-expected to sit there through the whole film thinking, "That's not how John Wayne spoke that dialogue." And while such comparisons are inevitable, this new True Grit does stand on its own, and manages to carve
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Tron: Legacy Soundtrack

I picked up the Tron: Legacy Soundtrack by Daft Punk, and have been giving it a few listens.   It's not bad, although it's far more effective in context during the movie. Most of the soundtrack consists of low, long, rumbling chords driven along by plodding electronic rhythms. Not that that's all that bad... it does set an appropriate mood for the electronic world in the film, and the orchestrations help to add variety and intensity, but overall it just doesn't make for a great album to listen
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Tron: Legacy (spoiler-free review)

I saw Tron: Legacy in IMAX 3-D today, after months of waiting and anticipation.   With much effort, I did manage to avoid spoilers - although some twit in the audience was talking during the film and guessed one during the movie. Here's a suggestion to all of you who are going to movies and like to talk during them... BE QUIET! You aren't at home watching TV, and nobody wants to hear you talking during the movie they're paying to watch. If you can't stand not hearing yourself talk for the dura
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Tron in HD!

What, you need more than just "Tron in HD!"? Isn't that enough!?   Oh right... "when".   Tomorrow night. Specifically, Wednesday night, on HD Net. 9 PM ET, or 6 PM PT, repeating again 3 hours later at 12 Midnight ET/ 9 PM PT.   This is why it's a good thing to read Tron-Sector from time-to-time.   Otherwise, I would have been seriously tweaked if I'd missed it.   This one is going to be a keeper on the DVR. (At least until the Blu-Ray version comes out.)   Also, the Flynn Lives
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Tron 1.5.2

The first episode of season 2 of Tron: Uprising aired tonight. (Some episodes are online, depending on your TV provider, or through iTunes, but it's crazy-expensive there.)   Tonight's episode was "The Reward", in which Tesler offered up a shiny-new car to whoever turned in The Renegade.   Needless to say, that worked well. Because there were dozens of Renegades turned in. Way to clean up the streets there, programs. Of course, none of them were the real one.   Beck decided to lay low in h
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Trailer trash

I seldom go to movies anymore, mainly because they're too expensive. For the price of admission and snacks, I could buy it on DVD instead.   While on vacation though, I managed to get out and see The Chronicles of Narnia, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I hadn't read the book, but I've been told the movie follows it pretty faithfully. And although it may not be among my all-time-favorite movies, I'd certainly put it in the "very enjoyable diversion" category, which is a pretty good recommendatio
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Toy Story 4 - Spoiler-free review

Well, that was weird.   No, not the movie. My last blog post.   Well, not the post, but the way it got posted.   It used to be, that when you posted a new blog entry, it would move to the top of the main blog page.   But mine didn't. It stayed down at the bottom, right below Eric Ball's latest entry:     The weird thing is, I posted my entry on August 10:     And Eric had posted his on July 10:    
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Toy Story 3 (spoiler-free review)

In a word - perfect.   While Toy Story 3 was in production, a friend of mine at Pixar (who was sworn to secrecy) would only describe it as "like visiting with old friends". I have to agree with that sentiment. I was concerned that Pixar had an uphill battle in making a worthy sequel to two of the best-loved animated films ever, and the commercials that they've been showing didn't really alleviate those concerns. However, this is easily my favorite of the three. The sense of adventure in this f
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Too weird, apparently

Lady Gaga (who I've managed to largely ignore) is weird.   I think that's a pretty safe statement.   "Weird Al" Yankovic is also weird. But "Weird Al" is "funny" weird, rather than "don't let her near your cat" weird.   But now, apparently, "Weird Al" is too weird for Lady Gaga.   You can read the whole story in "Weird Al's" blog.   In short though, Al decided to do a parody of Lady Gaga. Admittedly, this is sort of like saying "the sky is blue", and for that reason, Al avoided doing a
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Tomorrowland - Spoiler-free movie review

Okay.... if you read my last review, I was pretty-much done with going to the movies.   So, yeah. About that...   After that final disappointing trip to the theater, I began to realize something: going to the movies had become a chore. And it had been for quite some time, too.   Besides the two trips to see Age of Ultron, I'd been to a string of bad screenings. Dim projection, bad sound, dirty screens, and just really poorly run theaters. Snacks were marginal - flat, diluted soda, stale po
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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To-Done?

Another year, another To-Do list. This one's pretty late. Usually I write these early in the year, but this year there wasn't really much to update. I'd finished up most of the projects on my last To-Do list and decided I wasn't really interested in taking on anything new. This new To-Do list (half-written in January) originally wasn't going to contain any homebrew projects. Between Star Castle, Ixion and Stay Frosty 2, I pretty-much got burned out on working on homebrews last year. I ended
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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To-doing

Sounds like a Don Martin sound effect*, doesn't it? To-doing!!   But actually, this is yet another To-Do List. However, since some of it is already in progress, that makes it a "To-doing" list.   If the blog tags weren't still broken, you would be able to click on a handy link, and look at my previous To-Do List entries. But it's just as well you can't, since even I don't particularly like looking back on lists of things that I never got finished.   That said, I'll continue with the tradi
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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To-do-over

Almost two years since the last list. Looks like the prediction of the great Homebrew Crash of 2016 was right! Hide the children! Run for the hills! Exit from the EU! Nah... there's plenty of stuff happening. Some of it just takes awhile to materialize, since this is all done in peoples' spare time and all that. Some of this is old. Some of it is new. Some of it is borrowed. Some of it is way overdue. Wait... that's not quite how it goes. Eh, close enough. Anyway... latest updates are
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Nathan Strum

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