Recently Viewed, Tron: Ares

If you’re not familiar with my movie rating system, here’s a brief explanation: more complex than a thumbs-up/thumbs down system and more specific than an undefined star rating, my system rates seven factors of a story, assigning one star for each entertaining element. Drawing power 1 Interest factor 1 Offensive factor 1 Range of emotion …

Year of the Robot

Forget everything you know about the zodiacs. It’s not the year of the tiger or the wolf, the yew tree or the Dodge Ram. It’s the year of the robot. Here’s a gigantic clue for the computer programmers of the world: WE, THE PEOPLE OF EARTH, DON’T WANT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WE WANT ROBOTS. Robots are …

One More Thing

If you didn’t think of the fabulous Jackie Chan Adventures cartoon when you read the title of this article, then you will do yourself a great favor by looking it up now. Go ahead, I’ll wait. ……. Okay, so where did you find it? Were you able to at least get the idea of what …

Last Year’s Resolutions

Perfecting oneself is timeless. There are no start dates or end dates. There are only series and steps, moderations and milestones. Whatever your goals were last year, if you feel you didn’t quite accomplish them, you can still aim for them in 2026. Recycle them, reuse them. The year 2026 isn’t even your limit. You …