Especially in my younger years I have been a dedicated fan of Ridley Scott's movie "Blade Runner". That might be because I liked the dark scenery, the dry acting style of Harrison Ford, and liked the music of Vangelis even more. But it was also the story that was not a usual good guys vs. bad guys stuff that …

It has been Discworld Novel #18 for me - I strictly stick to the proper sequence. I still suck the pages into the humour district of my brain, and quite often the areas of social criticism, history and science are also heavily used. Indeed, after quite a lot of stories I read about the Discworld, one or another …

I found this book by pure chance, and pure change is also one of the topics of this book. Is it pure chance that life looks like we see it? Or are there deeper laws (of mathematics, physics, chemistry, or God) involved we may do not know about? How on earth was life able to create more complex (and ordered) specimen …

One thing I enjoy wenn I fire up my private computer is one of my plasma widgets showing the daily "astronomy picture of the day".  Just today, a dark cloud (mysterious!) that sucks in all the light of the stars behind it. But whooo - maybe it's intelligent? At least more so than some people I know? (I resist the urge …

Last December a online dealer gave away the Blue Ray Special Extended Edition of Lord of the Rings for 50 Euros. Although I have the three DVDs of the cinematic cut and also I have seen the Special Editions on DVD (in a row, by the way) I could not resist. So I received the six blue ray discs and somewhat eleven or …