Wax Banks : He's probably spelled 'library' with one L again, poor ...

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-04-25 16:24:52

And by the way, the Vogons were actually hired by Zaphod's analyst who didn't want the Ultimate Question interfering with his business . Even that cosmic conspiracy is absolutely petty in motivation. (And the whole thing ...

Wax Banks : I slagged off Ze Frank back in the day and I apologize.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-04-10 01:38:34

I didn't get it, but I've finally gotten it, I get it; and though I don't care at all, his The Show has at times lifted me up, and there is much to be grateful for, there. The new 'A Show' has started well. I hope it goes somewhere new.

Wax Banks : Derb.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-04-08 01:04:24

Blah blah blah, John Derbyshire wrote an ugly, terrified column about how blacks are dumb animals -- but everyone who's ever read his stuff has known for a long time that he thought these things. (See Ta-Nehisi.) What's ...

Wax Banks : A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness, 2011).

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-04-08 17:24:30

I read this 'YA novel' in a single 90-minute gulp before bed last night. It's lovely and I very much enjoyed it (thanks Norah). I'll note, almost as an afterthought (I forget things like this), that the illustrations are a dark delight.

Wax Banks : Three books lately read.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-04-07 02:53:25

Right Ho, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse): Gussie's prize-giving at Market Snodbury is as perfect as everyone said it would be, but this is one of the worst confessions I've ever had to make by the time I got around to it, after all ...

Wax Banks : Get the joke right!

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-04-05 14:52:23

Deleted a whole post, replaced it with this.] If you lead off your book by clumsily misquoting Douglas Adams like so... 'The answer to life, the universe, and everything' ...and you don't get why the words 'the ...

Wax Banks : 5000 Macs are infected with a trojan?

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-04-05 14:54:53

5000 Macs are infected with a trojan? That's all? And this is supposed to be news, to signal the 'end of an era' or somesuch handwavey ahistorical nonsense? Dear tech press: grow up. Posted at 10:54 AM in Web/Tech | ...

Wax Banks : Schumer tries to say the right thing but can't, because ...

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-03-11 18:14:37

Democrats are focused like a laser on jobs, the economy, and the middle class, Schumer said. Republicans, realizing that that's not their strong suit, are going off on these other things, women's issues and women's health ...

Wax Banks : An essential misunderstanding about story, Buffy edition.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-01-01 02:28:59

Too much plot 'cleverness,' too much business , not enough story. That ended up being the unexpected problem with Season 8. And this 'zompires' silliness sure seems to be more of the same. Joss is partly to blame, yes.

Wax Banks : Why don't geeks seem happy during/after arguments?

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-01-31 02:35:34

If someone's in an affinity group whose main characteristic seems to be that the members are constantly at each other's throats (rather than that largely-irrelevant official business draws people together to agree broadly, and ...

Wax Banks : Little, Big : Aegypt :: Hobbit : Lot R?

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-01-06 16:57:37

Great Wars left as unfinished business , leaving behind cultural and mythological fragmentation for the survivors... Plus there's something Shire-like about the Faraway Hills -- right down to the name. While we're on the topic: ...

Wax Banks : One key difference between God and King Lear...

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-02-03 20:50:28

One key difference between God and King Lear... ...is that outside of the imaginative world of King Lear -- outside of the contract with Shakespeare and his performers which guides our experience of the play and the events it ...

Wax Banks : Miles and miles.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-03-01 16:04:27

Herbie Hancock honours his mentor. (from the wonderful Another Kind of Blue)

Wax Banks : the bit about the dragon

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-03-04 01:49:08

From the thing I'm working on: There's a dragon. Dozens of them, actually, but one Boss dragon named Cocoa plays a central role in this story, as in so many others. Cocoa says to the mayor of Casterbridge, 'I could use a live ...

Wax Banks : Bringing the party to you.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-03-02 01:22:55

Brilliant trailer mashup. Are you a nerd? (Probably a boy?) Watch this.

Wax Banks : --Skeuomorphic, in a voice that rustled.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-02-17 16:13:35

The important takeaway here is that throwing around words like 'skeuomorphic' doesn't mean you know anything about interface design, user experience, or (indeed) human-machine joint cognition; it just means you read the ...

Wax Banks : A moment for Sasha Laxton.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-01-28 19:52:46

I take this as a very very very small example of acknowledging the usual boundaries, tweaking them a bit, and going about my business such that my own convenience and comfort are kept high, even if productivity remains at ...

Wax Banks : The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, radio series ...

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-01-30 03:53:09

Anyhow I just want to make a quick point about the Hitchhiker's Guide stories: the remarkable business of Adams's fictional universe its crowded urban vibe, the way Adams piles up incidental details through Guide entries ...

Wax Banks : Whitney Houston.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-02-12 17:41:20

French parents are superior? But then what exactly do French parents produce? | Main. 12 February 2012. Whitney Houston. What a voice. Rest in peace. Posted at 12:41 PM in Americana, Music | Permalink. Track Back. Track Back URL for ...

Wax Banks : Kick, back to me.

Wally, waxbanks.typepad.com
2012-02-15 17:10:10

Ever have that experience of listening to an album and realizing that you know the whole thing, all the way through, and have done so since you were eight years old or so? I'm having that experience right this instant with ...