Stefan Hayden

I'm actually kind of excited for the Tin Man series on the SciFI channel. It's a re-envisioning of the The Wizard of OZ and seems to do some interesting things with the story. I've been a fan of these kinds of adaptations of old stories since The 10th Kingdom Series that was on years ago.

Where these made for TV series tend to get caught up is bad acting, crappy computer graphics, and bad writing. So far the graphics look really good and the actors all have pretty good track records. So all that's left is the writing. The couple of lines in the previews sounded solid but there is not much more to go on. Over all I think this series has a good chance of getting it right. The first episode is Sunday December 2nd at 9pm. If only Tivo went that far ahead.

Marvel puts 2,500 comics online behind a pay wall for $60 a year. This is almost worth it to me as I’ve not been following comics for a while now and I’m sure there are tons of stuff on there I would love to read. If they added the new comics every month I would pay as high as $120 a year for access to that service.

I find it endlessly amusing to hear Ira Glass talking about shipping on The Sound of Young America.

Wow. Okay so bloglines has updated their beta and it does seem really fast. At this point the difference between google and bloglines is really just small interface differences. which interface do I like better? I have no idea. I left bloglines awhile go and now I’m considering possibly switching back.

Over the next couple of week I think I’m going to be using both and see which I settle on. I left bloglines really frustrated that their interface was too slow and painful to use. But they might have finally one upped google and I’d be excited to see them gain back some of the respect they once had.

The last Terry Goodkind book comes out November 13th. I’ve been reading this series for about six years and and have slowly gotten sick of everything in the books besides the main plot line which I must follow to conclusion or the lack of closure will kill me. Here’s hoping he just ends it. He’s already threaten to write other books set in the same world. My stomach turns at the thought of it.