Archive for July 6th, 2008

Astonishing X-Men #25 - Review

Written by andy on Sunday, July 6th, 2008 in Comic Books, GamersCircle.

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Simone Bianchi’s art? Coolness!

If you haven’t seen his work before now, check out issues of Wolverine from last year, I think that he has an amazing talent.

For me, me there were a few parts which where the art was a bit too dark, but overall Bianchi’s work is amazing.  And not just in his figure work either; his faces are expressive and individualistic, his panel layouts are interesting and he works in some fun perspectives.

Now as for Ellis’ writing, I have never really been a huge fan, I liked his Ultimate Human, but other titles were so-so, but this time he got his game on.  All of the characters have the ‘Ellis-ness’ about them, yet the characters still seem to retain their individualism at the same time

I am not sure where the end was going for me, so this means that I am going to have to get the next issue to make sure that I am reading what Ellis’ want me to get or not.

Got My Geek On!

Written by andy on Sunday, July 6th, 2008 in GamersCircle.

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I go today off from work, which meant that I normally sit around and catch up on TIVO, clean the house a tad and do that "Gaming" thing.

Today though, I thought I would tackle a couple of geeky things that are most likely boring to the rest of the world.

1.) Extra Monitor Removal - I removed a monitor that has been cluttering my desktop for a while.  It is a Dell 22" monitor that I was using with my 24" Samsung, but after a video driver update.  I was no longer able to maintain a high resolution on my primary monitor while extending my desktop.  The solution:  We are going to be getting a new Dell computer and that monitor from that system will go to me so that I will have the same exact monitors and be able to run the exact same resolutions.

2.) Spare Laptop Setup - I have had a IBM T43 floating around which I had installed Ubuntu as a little linux project, but now that it is over.  I reinstalled WinXP and now am going to put it to use.  For what?  I am not 100% sure, yet.

3.) Wiring Clutter - Over the years, I have either needed or was to lazy to take care of the excess RJ45, RJ11, power strips and other miscellaneous wires that are usually needed/used in today’s computerized homes.  Now, I have a small pile of wires that I can reuse and save money by not buying them again.

 

And that is about it, not exciting, not glamorous and most likely not even worth ‘digging’ about either.


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