Posts by Christopher Null
Coulda Been Somebody
Not really sure why these guys wanted to interview me, but the whole thing turned out to be quite a bit of fun. Check it out, then go update my Wikipedia entry.
Read MoreSeriously, Safeway?
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Read MoreOn Conservation
Pundit Derrick Jensen says: Conservation, recycling, and personal green technologies are useless. Interesting and very sad piece on why, as a race, we’re pretty much doomed. Favorite quotes: “Even if every person in the United States did everything [An Inconvenient Truth] suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent. Scientific consensus is that…
Read MoreCenter of the Googleverse
Open up Google Maps. Zoom in all the way without moving the location/cursor. The center of the Googleverse is Coffeyville Country Club in Kansas.
Read MoreI Miss All the Good Stuff
Keep on keepin’ it real, Houston!
Read MoreWhere Seinfeld Is Still in its First Season
Ever wonder what the aliens are watching on TV?
Read MoreThe Big Time
News of the AMC Filmcritic.com acquisition has finally made the papers. Oddly, both (very short) stories about it have something incorrect in them. This one has the descriptions of the two sites bought reversed. This one has the suffixes (.com/.org) mixed up. Whoopsie.
Read MoreOscars Expanding Best Picture to 10 Nominees
Fairly ridiculous. When’s the last time there were even five truly worthy nominees in that race? Still, I guess it will make for a more unpredictable finish, which is fun.
Read MoreOn Fava Beans, Chianti
I’m getting so tired of this ridiculous Steve Jobs liver transplant story. The increasingly tiresome Jim Goldman “confirms” what was widely suspected: Jobs went to Tennessee so he could get a liver transplant. Yeah, we got it. But now comes the backlash: Did Jobs jump the transplant line so he could get a liver before…
Read MoreNuke Your Hometown for Fun and Profit
You know, the funny thing is the little bombs don’t look so bad at all. Nuke ’em!
Read More$500 for 2 Hours Work
I could totally handle this. Totally.
Read MoreSilence Really Is Golden
See, now you have a real reason not to tell us all about your hopes and dreams… Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen. Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work…
Read MoreCrashed Kindle DX
Picked up my Kindle DX review unit and this is what I found: Broken screen? I guess. Rebooting hasn’t helped. Plastic is in perfect condition, and the unit wasn’t dropped or mistreated in any way.
Read MoreDeFnestration [definition]
DeFnestration: The complete removal of a misplaced “Fn” key from a laptop by the user, typically because it has been awkwardly located at the bottom left of the keyboard, where the Ctrl key is supposed to go.
Read MoreFive Stars: Back in Print!
That’s right, folks. You can order the paperback version of Five Stars! How to Become a Film Critic, the World’s Greatest Job today from CreateSpace. It will be back on Amazon in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more details!
Read MoreCan’t. Stop. Giggling.
“I believe that a writer’s privacy is among his most precious possessions, in that personal information about him distracts readers from what is most important: the work itself,” the author of The Catcher In The Rye told reporters outside the Claremont Cinema 6 theater, moments after seeing the film for the third time. “But on…
Read MoreDon’t Trust Nobody
The Rosenhan experiment: For the purposes of the study, eight “pseudopatients” (associates of Rosenhan selected to be a group of varied and healthy individuals) attempted to gain admission to psychiatric hospitals. During psychiatric assessment they claimed to be hearing voices that were often unclear, but which seemed to pronounce the words “hollow”, “empty”, and “thud.”…
Read MoreNERD FIGHT!!!
Oh, the humanity…
Read MoreHell of a Way to Go
I thought they were supposed to be buried in a VW Beetle…
Read MoreWhat Is It With This House and Leaks?
Now the water heater has sprung a leak. Thing is buggy as it is, but now there’s MORE water pooling in the garage. What a nightmare… New water heater arrives tomorrow. 50 gallons of fun.
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