Nunc Scio

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Month: April, 2008

Arizona gets visited by mysterious, UFO-esque lights

Phoenix residents think they may have been visited by UFOs Monday night. The four mystery lights hovered over the city for 15 minutes before disappearing. And, there’s video: It’s a lot harder to be an alien visitor these days. Back in the 1950s, a UFO could appear over any mid-sized city, do some flips, blow [...]

Working transformers costumes = nerdtastic!

Gotta love fanboys. So endlessly inventive, even if their inventiveness comes at the expense of having a meaningful social life. Check out this vid of a bunch of transformer costumes that actually transform: Did I say no meaningful social life? My bad. You’ll have a social life, all right…only it will be exclusively with the [...]

GI Joe movie shows off its…assets

I’m starting to come around to this new GI Joe movie. I’d like to say it had something to do with the director, or the script, or the potential for thoughtful commentary on the nexus of politics and armed intervention in a post 9/11 world. But really, it has more to do with this: And, [...]

Busted!

Looks like all the Russian denials this morning were a little uh…shall we say, Soviet? Talk about a smoking gun…..

Nunc Scio’s new arrival

Slow day here at Nunc Scio central. There’s either nothing particularly interesting going on, or I’m too imbued with Monday malaise to be a wiseass. Actually, it’s probably some nefarious combination of the two. So, I’ll tell you about my exciting weekend news. Yes, I am now a father. Not of a human child, nay: [...]

Everything is faster than the TTC

So, I rode my bike to work for the first time today. Frakkin’ awesome. Beautiful weather, beautiful lake shore and that great feeling you get while doing something that might actually be extending your life, as opposed to hastening your journey to the grave. But here’s the thing: it took me 30 minutes, door to [...]

New theatre review: Death Ray Cabaret

With a regularity you can set your watch to (if you used some kind of freaky, bi-weekly watch), my new theatre review is up on BlogTO. This week it’s on Death Ray Cabaret, aka the best darn sketch troupe you’ve never heard of.  Check it (and them) out.