A comic strip that I've read for...well...a long time is coming to an end. Or is it (some additional details here, Adobe Acrobat file)?

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John D at SF Signal, probably in revenge for my nitpicking habits, has "tagged" me with a meme. Box Office Mojo has released a list of movies made from books...how's my SF movie rating, I guess.

Entries bolded are ones where I've read the book.
Entries italicized are ones where I couldn't make it through the book.
For giggles, entries underlined are ones where I couldn't make it through the movie.

And, I'm annoying five more people by tagging them at the end.

Jurassic Park
War of the Worlds
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
I, Robot
Contact
Congo
Cocoon
The Stepford Wives
The Time Machine
Starship Troopers
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
K-PAX
2010 (no 2001?)
The Running Man
Sphere
The Mothman Prophecies
Dreamcatcher
Blade Runner(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Dune
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Iron Giant(The Iron Man)Battlefield Earth
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (I've read The Shrinking Man)
Fire in the Sky
Altered States
Timeline
The Postman
Freejack (Immortality, Inc.)
Solaris
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
The Thing (Who Goes There?)
The Thirteenth Floor
Lifeforce (Space Vampires)
Deadly Friend
The Puppet Masters
1984
A Scanner Darkly
Creator
Monkey Shines
Solo (Weapon)
The Handmaid's Tale
Communion
Carnosaur
From Beyond
Nightflyers
Watchers
Body Snatchers

I tag: The Crotchety Old Fan, Dave Does the Blog, Flying Sauce, Ronzobot and StevenHartSite.

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Alexander Dumas, pere (The Three Muskateers, The Man in the Iron Mask) has a new novel out!

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Ah, give me joy of the summer's day! No air conditioner at work. Which I can stand the heat, it's the lack of air that gets freshened that has given me a migraine-sized sinus headache.

Blech.

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Last week, whenever I logged on to read my personal mail at work, I was urged to get a wife from India (no adblocking at work, alas). This week, I keep seeing sidebars and other ads with provocative "local" women who want to date me.

Ummm...seeing that I'm married, thanks, but no thanks.

I recall when the intertubes was going to be the way to personalize advertisements with such accuracy given your browsing and buying habits...ads aimed right at what you bought.

Guess we haven't arrived yet (if ever). Thank goodness for the adblocker at home!

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It's bad when you finish a book, put it down, and completely forget to update your book log for several days!

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Proving once again, you can do anything with Legos. Now let's see if your typical legal type can submit his or her billable hours this way!

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