Thursday, June 25, 2009

My Cat


Per J. Scalzi, a science person:
The vast majority of blogs, in fact, have nothing but the following three posts:

Post One: “Here’s my blog! This is where I’m going to share all my thoughts about life, the universe and everything! It’s going to be great and I can’t wait to tell you all what I’m thinking about everything!”

Post Two: “Hey, sorry I haven’t updated in a while — life’s been crazy. But I’ll be back soon.”

Post Three: “Here’s a picture of my cat.”

And then it’s done.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Graduate meet Real World


Just Kidding - I wish 2009 graduates well.
Hiker link: here " recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear scat."

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Star Trek

So good.

Now, I have to watch "Wrath of Kahn" again to make sure that it is still my favorite Trek movie.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Fan Rejected Movies


I was shocked at the level of dislike the fan base poured out on their movies this year. Listing from most deserving of dislike to Least deserving: "Watchmen" (there where whole blogs devoted to hating some of the scenes), "Wolverine", and last, "Dragonball Evolution". Sure, they were all bad. But, the only reason that "Dragonball" failed is that it replaced the fan-loved story with another not-as-good story. "Wolverine" was just slightly worse. Apparently super-strong adamantium is no match for super-weak-scriptium.

When a hero movie is made, there is a large group who want to see the hero. But, the movie has immature-adult-elements which remove the larger chunk of the built in audience from participating. For the remaining small group, the story is re-written in a way to directly annoy the fans. Many drop away. Finally, for the remaining small group, the story is re-worked so that it is odd enough and long enough and scattered enough to be practically unwatchable. The movie fails in many ways.

Oddly this does not matter to "Wolverine" which people rate, "pretty good" and pour millions of ticket sales into.

On the good side, "Star Trek" is up this Friday. Also on the good side: the Atomic Robo free comic was Tesla humor at it's best.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Free Comic Book Day tomorrow May 2nd


Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away several select comic books absolutely FREE (with few stores that are exceptions) to anyone who comes into their stores. Linky with FAQ and a comic store locator here.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Pirate Defense


I won, yes I won at Pirate Defense.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Timing is everything



I think that I missed the opportunity to have a wide appeal with this Kong gag. I should have finished it closer to the time when flight 1549 made a splash. How short people's memories are.