Akkadian

Your Score: Akkadian

You scored

You are Akkadian, a blend of the incomprehensible symbols of the Sumerians with the unwritable sounds of the early Semitic peoples. However, the writing just doesn't suit the words and doesn't represent everything needed, so you end up a schizoid mess. Invented in Babylon, you're probably to blame for that tower story. However, crazy as you are, you're much loved and appreciated, and remain actively in use by records keepers long after schools have switched to other languages.

Link: The Which Ancient Language Are You Test written by imipak on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Wikipedia

The Internet's pretty quick these days

Little over a day ago, this post was entered into the legendary archives at bash:

--> hindenburg (~ash@cloaked.rr.com) has joined #overclockers
<a474645> hindenburg like the german zeppelin disaster?
<hindenburg> what can i say
<hindenburg> blimpin aint easy

Now Busted Tees are already taking orders for the t-shirt:
Gotta love progress!

What Sony really needs to do

There's a couple of people who read this who may not know that Sony's latest games console, the PlayStation 3 is soundly outselling Microsoft's rival, the Xbox 360, however, more importantly, Nintendo's (totally aweseome*) Wii is still outselling the PlayStation 5 to 1. Thus, Dueling Analogs proposes an appropriate solution.


* If you haven't yet heard why it's so awesome, just Google "wii reviews" & check out The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess demo at E3

...You can hear the bow draw and the arrows twang!

Dr. Phil calls the Church of Scientology

It's a prank call with a soundboard...but it's still hilarious.

A sad story

I've already posted about Google's Street View, and there's already a site of the 'Top 15 Google Street View Sightings' with humorous pictures of people without heads and committing crimes. But at number 6 is a picture of a homeless man with his dog who is identified on the site as 'Cornelius' and 'Boo Boo'.

Just to show the permanence of the Internet, there is a linked story of how Cornelius, apparently well known in San Jose for his "friendly nature", was killed defending his dog from another homeless man a little over a month ago.

...

Nice marketing

A cool little suck-in by pen manufacturer TŪL

Best costumes ever!

Costumes Transformers
Uploaded by xkendyx

lol

Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays

Innovation

Everyone has experienced some new feature from Google's seemingly endless ideas, but they seem to be losing focus of the marketability of various ideas. That's not necessarily bad for us, the consumer, but it does mean that the Good Giant is pumping lots of money into endeavours that I can't see them making their money back on. Sure, with enough time, any investment, funded by ads will pay for itself but I'm too ineloquent this morning to continue the diatribe. I'm sure you get the point: basically, what's the point of Google Maps Street View?As reported by Penny Arcade.

A few more links

I believe in Harvey Dent campaign webpage which recently linked to this image of Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Al Gore's crazy multi-monitor office space here.

A trailer for a new film, another trading on Marky Mark's awesome cop-acting called We Own the Night.

And, a 3D fabrication machine that makes objects out of pure sugar here.

Which Chess piece are you?

Your Score: A Black Rook

You scored 3 Power-Finesse, 1 Leader-Follower, 2 Unique-Ordinary, and 2 Offense-Defense!

You don't have to worry about fancy plans, or sophisticated schemes. You are just on the board to kick some ass and smash some white pieces. You stand by your leaders, and they get worried when you are removed from play. You work best with your buddy, the other black rook, and when you don't have him watching your six, you tend to be somewhat innefective.

Link: The What Chess Piece Are You Test written by Gundark27 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

It's movies season again

As I'm sure most of you are aware, there's a whole bunch of cool films coming out this 'Summer'. With the rounding out of 8 trilogies (with Spiderman 3 already out, Pirates: At World's End out on Thursday, Shrek the Third, Ocean's Thirteen, Rush Hour 3 and Bourne Ultimatum) combined with the first film entry of The Simpsons, the most expensive comedy ever in Evan Almighty and every 80s boy's wet dream in Michael Bay directing Transformers, there should be plenty of fun to go around...and plenty of return on the studios investments in crappier films.

The reason I'm making this post however (as well as a reference point for myself) is as an excuse to show you Yahoo! Movies' primary reason you should see the film Bruce Willis called his most fun job in a while: Live Free or Die Hard

"Pick any two methods of transportation. Chances are you'll get to see them crash and/or explode into each other in this movie"

It seems like Len Wiseman has taken a page out of Bay's book. Anywho, check out the Yahoo! page, it's a fun way to spend 15 minutes.

Mildly amusing

If a door is closed, karate chop it open.




It's been done before, but I actually chuckled aloud at a couple of these.

The importance of correct camera technique

Terrorist Quiz

Ever wondered if you're a terrorist? Well here's your chance to find out. A bit old-hat, but still disturbing seeing as the flag that they mention is now flown on most U.S. Navy ships (and I don't think they've got the prison-space to hold half their military)

xkcd

A cool new comic site I found. Some of my favourites:
The requisite geek one:
And a huge map of the social-networking world:

The power of Photoshop

Why Photoshop is clearly one of the most influential software packages ever:

Click Here for more great videos and pictures!

Business cards

A nice collection of business card designs reside here. One of my favourites:

L&P

I love L&P! I recommend you go to their site to listen to their radio ads. There isn't much else to this post so here's one of their TV ads.

Why couldn't the Collins Class be like this?

longshort: New British sub, apparently looks like an alien, construction crew loves their job:
"We needed help over Easter," says Nigel Ward, "and over 300 men volunteered to work, even though the weather forecast was good."

Awesome furniture

This site has pictures of some awesome ideas for furniture such as a tree-chair, a floating bed and a room-in-a-wheel!

More educational flashness

How to mummify someone:

Educational!

Cool black-hole flash thingy

It's too big here, but most of you get this through a reader anyways right?

Is it talent or skill?

I can't be bothered downloading it & putting it on YouTube. It's still crazy though.

Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings won 74 consecutive Jeopardy shows and has quite a personality and sense of humour (is one required for the other?) and as such is one of my favourite trivia buffs. I got given his book last Xmas and, as a bit of a trivia fan, I found it a really enjoyable read. The point of this post however is just to provide a link to a video of him with a cool answer.

There's also this which is just cool for us 1337 h4x0r5.

I feel left out

I haven't yet been approached by anyone representing legal authorities at all. I didn't download Metallica at school; I bought pirated software before DMCA...etc

So here's my (very) little bit of badass:

The HD-DVD encryption number: 0x 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

May the legal letters roll in

Savior

Since I'm in a bit of a movie review mood, I thought I'd include this film which I've been intending to post about for ages.

Long-short: Dennis Quaid, before he was famous, playing an American officer who joins the French Foreign Legion after killing the terrorists who killed his family.He turns mercenary for the Serbian forces during the recent conflict where he struggles to rescue a pregnant Serb and her baby.

I've only seen this film once, I was in the mood for an action film and Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow) and the Foreign Legion (Legionnaire) seemed to make a good combination. What I watched, however, blew my mind and has haunted me almost every day since I saw it morer than a year ago.

I've never seen real war, but without spoiling the film, it's clear why so many soldiers have trouble letting go. I honestly recommend that each and every one of you finds this film and watches it, but do so knowing that'll it might very well screw you up.

300

There's been just a wee bit of hype surrounding 300 lately. With the success of Sin City, everyone was scambling to be able to claim 'I liked Frank Miller before it was cool!' and, with the current wars, 300 must have been the natural next choice. As far as I can tell, it's fairly close to the comic (the terms 'comic' and 'graphic novel' are equal in my book...get over it) but that doesn't redeem it much. I know I may be surrendering my wang, but 300 just wasn't as good as it should've been.

Whatever reason you could have for watching 300, there is a better film out there.
If there's actually anyone who saw it because they really wanted to see realitic-ish Ancient-Greek fighting, I reckon Troy was heaps better, or even apparently the original The 300 Spartans.

If you just wanted a rousing battelcry of a film, one that makes you want to go and take a swing at the tall poppies or the state as soon as you leave the cinema, The Last Samurai, V for Vendetta, and Tears of the Sun (or practically any Bruce Willis film...that has a gun, ghosts don't count)

I imagine there were quite a few fans of the comic-book style of Sin City, who were expecting a similar film, just set about 2500 years prior. But even then, while it did have a unique (read 'fake') feel to it, it still fell short with V For Vendetta and The Crow and, of course Batman Begins leading the charge (I'd even include Road To Perdition in there despite a significantly realistic wash, it still flowed with more of the feel of a comic).

I presume, however, that the main reason people saw it was for the gore, which as you can tell by the logo was meant to be a pretty important character itself.

But even then, there are so many films that have surpassed it; I'm thinking the Blade series, A History of Violence and, of course, Josie and the Pussycats.

There's also amazing inaccuracies, presumably taken from the comic such as African elephants, huge rhinoceroses, giants, Immortals who look very ninja-like, guys with swords for arms and black-African Persians! I figure it was a pretty ferocious army before CGI was invented didn't really need enhancement.

My final gripe, was contained in the climax, don't worry it's not a spoiler, we all know they all die, but the whole film, they've put up this heroic fight, allowing time for all the armies of Greece to move to engage the Persians, they all expose themselves only to die in a shower of arrows, despite, seconds before, being adequately protected in a formation we've already seen was impenetrable. They could've at least taken a few with them.

As far as pros, Gerard Butler was great, as were each of the 300 Spartans (with David Wenham narrating really well and Vincent Regan in his second Greek-captain role) and it showed the immensity of Xerxes' army that appeared on Greece's doorstep.

For some fun, have a look through the film's keyword list from IMDb.

Interesting approach

Turns out, apparently all those gross anti-smoking pictures and TV ads have been working (at least statistically) so the French have decided to apply the same approach to AIDS.

Again, for those of you a little freaked out by creepy-crawlies, I've hidden them...still worth it for discouraging unprotected sex...or sex full-stop actually.

Actually, those of you who get this through a reader, do you get the whole JavaScript, image-blocking thing working? (ie. Is it worth it?)

Useless cat

It's pretty funny, but for those of you who don't like cats...or rats,

I've hidden the picture:

Disturbingly bad comics

An hilarious list of 15 crazy classic comic strip cells here

And, Superman being a dick

Amazingly politically incorrect comic propaganda

And other, just plain weird frames

Really..."Japanazis"?

edit: Do ethnic slurs make one feel more patriotic?

Add any good ones you find in comments, this is just crazy.

edit2: Nope that's it. This one takes the cake:

Sounds like an awesome lecturer

Apparently he's an "Indian Bruce Willis"

You try to do something good...

I was going to post the whole story, but this, from AmpersandDuck is as good as I would have done.

Long-short: Liberal MLA, Steve Pratt decided to do his bit to clean up the neighbourhood...and to get the best publicity out of it that he could...by calling the press along to watch him scrub off some graffiti. Turns out the particular graffito he chose was there at the request of the government in a inspire-graffiti-artists-to-actually-be-artists kind of way. So, for the last couple of days it's been pretty constant in the local news.

Graffiti artists have retaliated and Pratt is expected to be criminally charged (at the request of the government of course).

Tidy

I feel I should ask if it was better the other way...with links and whatnot. Any thoughts? Better? Worse?

Regardless, there should be entertainment so read (and maybe tell) underpants stories with Styleygeek.

Funnies

For Easter:

For my birthday:

And just for giggles (oito):

Pilot: Folks we'll be flying at 28 thousand feet today, however, the folks at maintenance only gave us enough fuel to fly at 22 thousand feet. So, we'll see what happens. Enjoy your flight!

Oh, and for later (May 28):

Rutherglen

So we're all back from the inaugural AABBÇC Interstate Tour (website still yet to be made). Much fun enjoyed by all with some good wines, some not so good wines and some fantastic wines combined with a healthy dose of breathalyser competitions, food and ninja-ing, it was all-round a pretty good weekend...oh and don't forget good ol' St. Pat's.

Some wanted more wine.


Some were just looking for love...though in disturbing places.

Good advice

A good how-to clip from videojug on how to ensure service at a bar with an accompanying page from wikiHow. I've always found 'offering-my-place' technique, where you get in next to a not-so-bold girl (who is sure to be skipped over) and when you're approached first insist that she was first. Works every time.

Pirate Convention

I've been chuckling about this for a while, and then I finally saw Jarhead (in which I really liked Peter Sarsgaard's performance)...so I thought I'd finally post this. Enjoy.

The Cat

Apart from the having to pack bags to leave ridiculously early, this evening was made all the more fun by the arrival of a temporary housemate.
Vic and the newcomer:

Doods and 'Alberta'...that's not its real name...unless she gets to keep it.
So, yeah, if anyone knows someone who's lost a kitten give us a holler.

Cheap Deal Awesomeness

Two companies. For each I prefer the...uh...more 'community-derived'(?) alternatives. But for each I still don't mind selling out occasionally because of the various pros...such as cheapness.

Borders and Microsoft each have an awesome deal available for us.

Borders has 40% off a book for this week! That's nearly half price!
And Microsoft is giving students Office 2007 Ultimate Pack for maximum $75!

That's just the kind of awesomeness that makes people sell out in the first place!

Camels may be bad for us

The scientist has floated the idea of shooting feral camels and using the meat for human consumption or pet food.

"Aboriginal people rightly would like to make some money out of the camels which are on their land, so we may well see strong support in those communities for using camels for things like pet meat but also for maybe human consumption."

Though I'm still unclear on why they're bad...'cause I've always heard they're the perfect species for Australia. Though why has it taken this long to realise that, without natural predators, their numbers can become a problem?

Overheard Gold

CCA: So, I have to get some KY jelly for my puppy. I've never really lubricated a dog's rectum before, you know?

Sales guy slamming down phone: Fucking bitch.
Boss: Tell me you didn't just slam the phone down on our biggest billing client.
Sales guy: What? She couldn't hear that.
Boss: What the fuck are you talking about?! I get the phone slammed down on me all the time -- I fucking hear it.
Sales guy: Yeah, I guess maybe she could hear it.
Boss, picking up phone: Call me.
Sales guy, getting very nervous: No, it's okay. I'm sorry.
Boss: Fucking call me. I said call me! Fucking do it now! [Sales guy calls. Boss starts slamming his receiver against his desk screaming] Can you fucking hear that?! Huh?! Can you fucking hear it, bitch?!
Sales guy: I hear it, boss, I hear it. Please, please stop.

I've gotta find out how to get these

I love Rowan Atkinson. Not so much Mr. Bean, though Bean is both a fantastic performance and pretty high up there in the comedy stakes, but Atkinson's other performances are awesome.

I had posted a couple of YouTube clips...but then I found this rip from one of his shows. It's got some interesting takes on some old classic sketches.


Edit: This clip is also amazing. Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton John. (It's also considerably shorter than the previous) If anyone has the video I'd pay through the nose to see it.

Interview With Elton John (Rowan Atkinson).mp3 | Send To Friends | Funny Videos at JibJab

I think she deserves a medal

...the geekiest one we have.

And on a slightly-humorous-but-also-kinda-disturbing note:
Bet On Iraq

Who wants to give me money?

On one hand I feel I should be restrained and sensible otherwise they may back down...but on the other...

Summary (of an already short article):

The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee is demanding immediate action from the Federal Government, after releasing its its latest report on student finances [which showed] that increasing numbers of students are struggling financially and neglecting their studies.

The vice-chancellors want the Federal Government to provide more scholarships and look at raising student allowances.

I hate when they don't apply to me.

Ahhh...the wondorous possibilities of a paperclip

Awesome 80's goodness from OneRedPaperclip (post):

And a humorous little post about Diocletian.

More Supercell Goodness

Admittedly there's been a bit of overkill on the whole supercell storm thingy and pictures and stories from passers-by and lecturer's stories of how all their stuff which was so safely filed away on the floor all got wet...but, I thought these two posts from Fumbling Towards Geekdom were particularly good (one of which is 'coincidentally' called Aftermath...PhDs should know better than to plagiarise a student...more so when it's done in anticipation).


Besides, it's a good excuse to link to the 'mystery'-ANU Linguistics PhD-girl's blog which I've been meaning to do for a while now.

Axes of Mutual Interest

I've fond memories of reading this many moons ago and thus decided to look for it to stay in perpetuity on the servers of Google. It's been widely attributed to John Cleese, but Wil Wheaton tracked it down tracked it down to SatireWire.

Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address.
Membership closed

Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil... we're the best."

Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil.

"They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So you can only have three. And a secret handshake. Ours is wicked cool."

International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered.

Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what became a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan, and Serbia said they had formed the Axis of Somewhat Evil, forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the Axis of Occasionally Evil, while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the Axis of Not So Much Evil Really As Just Generally Disagreeable.

With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics; Canada, Mexico, and Australia formed the Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America, while Spain, Scotland, and New Zealand established the Axis of Countries That Sometimes Ask Sheep to Wear Lipstick.

"That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do," said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.

While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the Axis of Countries Whose Names End in "Guay," accusing one of its members of filing a false application. Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges.

Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately, world leaders said that's only because no one asked them.

hehehe...Chadguay

Linky poos

Again, I've just stolen links from another blog, though this time I don't know the authors. See project.ioni.st

It's billed as a screenwriter's guide to relationships, but I think it's perfect for anone with enough sense to be able to read a graph.


A guy skydiving kinda sideways...means he can go down the side of a mountain. link

That's it...enjoy.

Aftermath

The last week has been slightly more interesting than most here in Canberra. Mostly because of the big-ass storm that tore the city apart on Tuesday night. Well, actually it was quite limited in its destruction, but it's managed to affect two of the three things that I centre my life here around.

First of all the storm caused major damage to at least 60 buildings on the ANU campus (depending on who you talk to). Including all the bits that are central to each of my subjects of course; though I've gotta feel sorry for the researchers and, more importantly, their research students who've had PhDs, Masters & Honours projects destroyed or delayed. There are plenty of photos around (the ABC reported hundreds being emailed around before 10am). So I've blatantly ripped the links to flickr and the ABC's own collection from Maddy's post.

Secondly, I was rostered on for the Wednesday at work and thus got stuck trying to protect everything in the store until things stopped leaking.
Good news: Only two of our direct competitors are still open after JAG and Country Road both had their ceilings fall in. (You should see CR, the entire thing just dropped all over the product, even yesterday they hadn't started cleanup)
Bad news: Vicki's workplace was totalled...really...the assessor came in and said "Save what stock you can, the rest is a write off." Thus hard, but fun, work was produced with many people being paid to tear down shelves and stock, put a hammer through it and through it out. Bit of a shame really as plenty of it was just superficial or packaging damage and it could've gone to a charity. Oh well...insurance companies suck.

Thankfully, however, the Film Group had to delay the second showing of Casino Royale (my last chance to see it without giving money to the Bond traitors...at least for a while), but still showed the Dr. No/GoldenEye Bondfest last night which was awesome. I'd never seen the original before and, quite frankly, it was good to see a Bond film made with a low budget.

So, every student I know...at least the undergrads...are over the moon about assessable tutes etc being cancelled for the last few days, Vicki and myself have made some awesome profits and our house is still intact (touch wood). Altogether, some pretty good bright sides.

Parenting in New York

This is the best quote I've seen on overheard in quite a while:

Yuppie kid: Mommy shaves her hoo-hoo!
Yuppie dad: Okay, honey. Look, do you want your book?
Yuppie kid: I came in the bathroom this morning and asked Mommy what she was doing and she said shaving her hoo-hoo. Mommy shaves her hoo-hoo!
Yuppie dad: Dylan, remember when we discussed at-home conversations and outside conversations?
Yuppie kid: Yes.
Yuppie dad: Well, this is an at-home conversation.
Yuppie kid: Okay, daddy. [Sings to herself quietly] Mommmyyy shaves her hoo-hooo...
Black lady: See, home conversating, outside conversating -- that's bullshit. My kid says shit like that, I smack him. He won't say shit like that again.
Yuppie dad: Okay, thank you, but I think our method works just fine.
Yuppie kid: Lady, do you shave your hoo-hoo?
Black lady: Oh, yeah, that shit is workin' just fine. She's all kinds of polite.
Yuppie dad: Okay, Dylan, this is our stop.

Musings on heroes

Okay, so this whole James Bond posting craze had been in warm up to seeing Casino Royale at the ANU Film Group on Monday. First of all, Daniel Craig can act...the action scenes are pretty awesome...and overall, the film was entertaining...but it's definitely not Bond. A complete lack of any remotely humorous wit, the ridiculous prominence of Sony products (even in his provided inventory...when the hell did British Intelligence need sponsorship?) immediately preclude it from inclusion as such.

However, the fun of watching a professional killer be driven effectively mad by girls is cool and the film ends up something like a cross between the action and the girl-chasing-ness of Mission: Impossible: 3 and the character development and transformations of The Matador (which I suggest anyone watch).

I kept trying to remember that the film was meant to be a 'restart' for the franchise, but the fact is, in the last 40 years, the character of Bond has developed beyond the books and Eon did fine jobs effectively refining the character by introducing a new actor in the past. When they wanted to sell on the humour and charm, they swapped out for Roger Moore. When they wanted to bring back the gritty realism, they were able to rely on relatively strong scripts to launch Timothy Dalton. And then when they needed just a wee bit more charm, to take it back to the height of Connery, they found the equal-best Bond in Pierce Brosnan.

The only real reason that a restart was really needed was because they'd already ballsed up the last film by giving him an invisible car! (Seriously, if they had them they'd be using them a bit more often wouldn't they?) In the Cold War, the KGB's own 'Q's regularly watched the early Bond films beacuse they thought the gadgets were real...and the fact that most of them were working props meant that they were pretty close. Assuming that you write-off Moonraker (as you should George Lazenby) and the occasional cutting-lasers Q hid in everything, the rest was actual technology, just in well-controlled environments.

Anywho...in my attempts to calm myself I went looking for randomness and, thanks again to Chris, I found some suitable, mindless entertainment in the random comics at Fishing For Orphans, only to get even more distracted by With your Moneys Combined. Wanting initially to look at the names of the old Captain Planet characters (check out the wanky sound on the gif of the Heart ring at the top), I am led into another rant: What kind of a superhero is weakened by the very thing he has been specifically created to fight? For those who can't remember, Gaia, the spirit of the Earth created Captain Planet, apparently thousands of years ago, to help her fight pollution...but if he gets too close it's like kryptonite (don't even get me started on Superman). Secondly, for a guy created, presumably with the first fire, why does he have a hairdo limited to about 10 years of being cool? Why is he blue? Why does he have seemingly infinite powers yet never use them? Why, if he's against pollution, doesn't he use his powers to create clean technologies and kind of ease the path to a less-polluted world? And why the hell does he have to be powered by some stupid kid who looks like a pineapple? And why does said kid not use his 'heart' powers to get some action? Seriously, if the 5 of them were at a club, Kwame leans over to a girl and says some crappy line about the 'earth moving under her feet', she's kinda interested until Wheeler sets something on fire...as if Ma-ti can't just use his ring to persuade her (abstract) heart to dump those two with their cheap tricks and go with him because she thinks she's in love!

Okay...deep breath...count to 10...in Greek...

That reminds me. The fourth Indiana Jones movie is to be out for next year with shooting starting in June (link). Who reckons Ford can pull it off? Apparently the script is "...well worth the wait." However, George Lucas is still involved (despite his Star Wars Travesties...that's right, they get a capital) and has even described it as "...doing the Phantom Menace." thus proving his millions of dollars and ranch in the middle of nowhere do nothing to keep him in touch with audiences. He does want to use another supernatural motivator though...which I think is a good thing. And the film will follow a week after Prince Caspian is released so be prepared for much movie merriment in May 2008.

(A bit of surprising: the first 3 Indy flicks got 7 Oscars from 14 nominations between them...that's just begging for another rant about Starship Troopers, but that's for later).

Oh yeah, a bit old but worth posting: J.J. Abrams is officially attached to Star Trek XI with rumours of Matt Damon (who can't seem do one film wrong lately) as Kirk.

hmmm...I hereby attach a 'Most Links in a Post Award'...and the 'Longest Post (at the Very Least in a Long While) Medal'

My new best friend

Cruise control!

It makes the trip home and back so much easier. Instead of trying to stay within an acceptable range of the speed limit, I can just sit in the slow lane and concentrate on conversation...and, when I upgrade the sound system, the music.

Life is sweet.

More Bond Impersonators

Poor production, but pretty funny for anyone out there who's played Goldeneye on the N64.

Bond, Tom Bond

I know it's a bit late, but during my YouTube trawling for the previous post and lonelygirl15 clips, I came across this alternative trailer for the new Casino Royale with the impostor replaced by someone who actually grows natural eyebrows.

Those memorable themes

So I was sent a page with a bunch of adaptations of the theme/s from Super Mario Bros. and here are my favourites.
This guy is playing the most popular theme on two guitars...at the same time.


As any nerd knows, having something nerdy mentioned in pop culture is cool, but it's even better when there's a whole bunch of people doing it together...thus, this is the best of the bunch. (See if you can pick them all)


On a bit of a side note, my wanderings in this regard led me to The Legend of Zelda as played on the theremin, and thus, to a link here, about the theremin itself.

Robot humour

Okay, so some of McSweeney's lists are okay, such as this one of 'Jokes Made by Robots, for Robots' with jokes like

"What's a robot's favorite cereal?
Rob-os.
(Note: Rob-os are made of the tears of human children.)" &

"Why did the robot order a milkshake?
To blend in with the general human population, making it easier to infiltrate society and—in time—conquer it."

(ties in nicely with How to Survive a Robot Uprising)

The beauty of Pandora

Apparently some side-project of the Music Genome Project (which sounds like a bit of a wank to me), Pandora is an internet radio station that suggests, in my experience, pretty damn well, music similar to the artists, songs or albums that you provide. For a couple of years now I've been liking the Reel Big Fish; Save Ferris; Cherry Poppin' Daddies etc and looking for some slightly more recent bands...Pandora has now solved my problems...and become my new best virtual, and artificially intelligent friend.

I very much recommend that you check out Pandora for yourself.

So I'm a guy...with a diary

Obviously though, you already knew that. For a start those of you who read this blog know me well enough to know I don't have breasts, and this is, in itself, really a diary anyway.

But now the BBC knows I'm a guy too...and I'll get to the diary in a bit.

According to the test at the link above: I'm an average guy, able to spot emotions quite well but completely unsympathetic to them...oh, and with average gender-hormone levels. Glad the BBC could tell me that over the web.

As for my diary, I've decided that a good diary is the next step to getting properly organised, but I can't think of a format for the information. I need to put my classes, readings, and work shifts as well as other stuff all into those little cells my Moleskine weekly diary gives for each day. I've been trawling blogs and articles related to the GTD cult and as yet, no fish. Just a matter of time I guess.

Oh yeah, and yet with a shaky start, the 3rd Season of Arrested Development is a fantastic, awesome, incredible ride - much re-watching pleasure in store.

edit: oh, and apparently I'm a 'Resolver' (according to here)