what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.” Elf, released in 2003 Buddy is shocked to discover that he’s not really an elf — he’s a human. He decides to travel all the way from the North Pole to visit his father, in New […]
{4.5/5} “What has eighteen legs and isn’t going anywhere?” Robin Hood, released in 2010 Robin is an archer in Richard the Lionheart’s army. At one last battle with the French, Richard is killed. Robin and his friends head for home, England, not really knowing what they will do. When Robin returns a sword to a […]
{4.5/5} “This curse will last till the end of time! No power on Earth can change it!” Maleficent, released in 2014 This is a retelling of the “Sleeping Beauty” story. Maleficent is a fairy and Stefan is a human — although they come from different worlds, they fall in love. But then Stefan betrays her […]
Here’s a unique comic called The Oatmeal, which I like quite a bit. It’s done by Matthew Inman, and his standard type of comic is to point out something about everyday life in a funny way. A couple of examples I thought were particularly funny: How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell The 3 Most […]
I’ve always been of the opinion that people can believe and do whatever they want, as long as they’re not hurting others. You might think that believing in creationism is harmless, but it’s not. The most dangerous part of creationism is people getting the idea that it should be taught in schools along with evolution. […]
Everyone thinks of themselves as the good guy in their own story. But when one person spends a month researching your interactions with others and concludes that you are the bad guy, and dozens of people agree with her, you really have to think long and hard about what you’re doing. This story is about […]
{5/5} “Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds — justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the […]
{4/5} “Putting the ‘you’ back in utopia.” The Zero Theorem, released in 2013 Qohen’s work is crunching entities — he’s now working on the zero theorem, which Management specifically asked him to work on. But he was fairly crazy before — for example, he talks about himself in the plural — and working on this […]
{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Fall — Peaceable Kingdoms by Dayton Ward, published in 2013 Captain Picard and the Enterprise are stuck at Ferenginar due to President pro tem Ishan’s orders. But Dr. Crusher sneaks away after getting a secret message from her old Cardassian friend Ilona Daret. Meanwhile Admirals Riker and Akaar at Starfleet Command […]
{4.5/5} “In the face of a threat to the survival of the species, all these planetside trivialities are put aside until the crisis passes.” A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card, published in 2007 This is a story that takes place when Ender is at Battle School in the novel Ender’s Game. The focus […]