#Spooktober 26 – The Lost Room

October 26, 2023

Do you want something spooky that’s not Gothic and yet manages to be deeply unsettling? This 2006 mini-series starring Peter Krause and Julianna Margulies is an absolute gem.

After coming across several objects that hide incredibly weird powers behind an absolutely ordinary appearance, detective Joe Miller finds himself tangled up in a paranormal investigation revolving around a mysterious Room that got somehow eradicated from existence. The Event, as it’s called, dislocated objects and scattered them through time, but was the room empty or should we heed the signs that a man was there? And what happened to him?

architecture, engineering and construction

Who EIRs the EIR?

There’s a game I’d like to play (queue The Cranberries): take two EIRs from the last month, any project really, and delete project name and phase. Then place them in front of somebody else and ask them to guess. Which kind of project? Is it

April 8, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Ring Around the Sun

This is, without any doubt, one of the best collections in the series, and notably one with aliens of many sorts: Martians and Venusians with a different approach to warfare and radically original new senses, and Ganimedians who just want what’s due for Christmas. What

April 5, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

The Village Teacher

As I was saying a few days ago, some of Cixin Liu’s short stories have been adapted into wonderful graphic novels. This one is a heartfelt story that touches many topics that are dear to the author’s heart, mainly the importance of knowledge and the

April 3, 2026 9:00 am