Action!

The first week of June an action camera came up on Woot! which peaked my interest. I’ve been considering picking up a used GoPro at some point to use for baptisms and other footage which could be hazardous to my phone or DSLR. So, when this deal came to my attention, I decided it would…

Exploring Mellel

I’ve been interested in the Mellel word processor for years. But as I’ve switched my writing format to Markdown, and my writing environment to Scrivener, I haven’t had much of a reason to put the software through it’s paces past it’s trial period. Until now, that is. Each Summer I put together the annual directory…

Cool utlity trick

One of the applications I purchased in a software bundle the other day was a neat little utility called Filepane. Like many other Mac utilities, Filepane resides in OS X’s finder bar, but with a dramatic different. To access Filepane’s features you don’t find and click on it’s icon. Instead, whenever any number of files…

It’s Civil War!

Thursday night I grabbed my kids and headed to the theater to catch a late-night showing of Captain America: Civil War. It was well worth the late night. I’ll give you fair warning now there will be spoilers ahead. Non-spoiler thoughts The Screen The only showing which fit our schedule was in a 3d IMAX…

Pixelated Nostalgia

This week I managed to see the Adam Sandler movie Pixels. I was mildly interested in the premise when I first saw the trailers, but not enough to bother seeing it in the theater. It received terrible reviews, and garners only 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. After seeing it I can say those poor reviews are…

Looking at Dawn of Justice

The Monday after Easter I headed to the theatre to see Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. The film has now been out for two weeks so consider this your spoiler warning. I have to say, when the movie was first announced I wasn’t expecting much. First, it felt too much like a “me too”…