by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 7, 2012 | Asides
Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, Live forever! Bradbury...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 7, 2012 | Asides
“Where are you taking me?” The car hesitated, or rather gave a faint whirring click, as if information, somewhere, was dropping card by punch-slotted card under electric eyes. “To the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.”...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 5, 2012 | Asides
Not looking too good for those of us living in the Northeast. Too much cloud cover. But, if you’re interested, Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory is streaming the Venus transit. Check it out here or you can go directly to the Vanderbilt news site. Stream starts...
by Jeffery Battersby | May 27, 2012 | Featured, Food, Theater
A little college film that I went down to Brooklyn to work on for a friend. Kinda fun. Hope you like it!
by Jeffery Battersby | May 22, 2012 | Asides
A great, if not incredibly sad, short film about Pete Rose. And MLB, seriously, he belongs in the Hall. It’d be the first thing I did if I were commissioner. via daringfireball.net
by Jeffery Battersby | May 16, 2012 | Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Writing
My review of PDF Studio Pro 7.4 is now up at Macworld.com. This is a good, Java-based PDF editing application, but its UI is a bit odd, largely because it’s written in Java and often I found its editing features to be a bit bolloxed.
by Jeffery Battersby | May 10, 2012 | Featured, Reviews, Writing
My review of PDFpenPro for Mac is now up at Macworld.com. Just a little personal note about PDFPen Pro, I was using this app long before I did this review. As far as I’m concerned it is the hands down best PDF editing application available for the Mac or your...
