Random Access

Wednesday
Happy Hump Day.

I spent a couple of hours perusing Monster.com. Again.
Madness.
I’ll probably spend a commensurate amount of time on Careerbuilder tomorrow.
Woo.

I read about 80 – 90 pages of my A+ Certification book, too.
Yay for productivity.

This evening, I watched the last half of Smallville, The West Wing and Law & Order. I know that I’ve made this analogy before, but Law & Order is becoming the Star Trek of the 00’s, with the way that it’s branched out into different series.

Star Trek (The Original Series)	Law & Order (The Original Series)
Star Trek: The Next Generation	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Star Trek: Deep Space 9	Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Star Trek: Voyager	Law & Order: Trial By Jury

And we’ll just ignore the whole ST: Enterprise thing. *averts eyes*

News
Morning Edition: Who’s Luckier?
Talk of the Nation: In Egypt, Comics Laud Arabic Heroes
Day to Day: The Status of the U.S. White Supremacist Movement

All Things Considered: SAT’s New Writing Component Worries Disadvantaged Students
All Things Considered: Movie Rental Pioneer George Atkinson Dies
All Things Considered: A Return to Black Cuisine, via the Rabbi’s Wife

Stray Toasters

While chatting with Maddox earlier this evening, I ventured over to his site. He has a new post: “Orbitz Blows”. In it, he recounts a problem that he had while dealing with the online travel agency and their lack of willingness to accommodate him for an “impossible” itinerary. And, a LOT of his readers have had a few choice things to say about it, too.
was on a roll this afternoon; she sent me a slew of video amusement. And now, I share it with you:
- Alien Invasion …from Greenpeace. Yeah. And, it’s not bad.
- robotdance – Watch the second kid. Sony should have cast him as Reed Richards in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie; they would have saved a ton on SPFX.
- Need glasses?
- Don’t spend your life…
- Imagine (backwards) and Air Platform Theme. Wow.
: When were you going to tell me about ?
Form feet and legs!
Form arms and body!
And, I’ll form… the head!
You know, after the first time or two that he said that, I was surprised that the rest of the Voltron Force to tell him to “Shut up and transform your damn lion! We know the drill!”
“Her bedroom is like a Google image search with safe-mode turned off.”
From the “Shades of Avril Lavigne” file: The Screen Savers‘ Sarah Lane was talking with a caller from Shreveport, LA. She asked him how things were in “Shrev-eh-port.” And I don’t think that she was being sarcastic when she mispronounced it. And, besides that, I always thought that the pronunciation of “Shreveport” was fairly well-known. Maybe it’s just the East Coaster in me. *shrug*
Because I know that can relate to this:
A commercial for Robots just came on. “The best action ever put on film” was one of the critic’s comments that they used in the commercial. That reminded me of something that I vaguely recall from the release of Batman Fever… um… I meant “Batman Forever. In a “Making of…”-style preview, they were showing a scene, near the beginning of the movie, where Batman dives head-first from the top of a building, flips in mid-air and then lands, feet-first, on the roof near Commissioner Gordon and Dr. Chase Meridian.
That scene – from dive until landing – was entirely digital.

In the commentary of the preview, someone made the comment that it would only be a matter of time before digital actors and stuntpeople would be used to perform actions/stunts that humans could not do. Or even “acted” in entire films.

Given the success of The Incredibles and other animated films, I would say that digital actors’ time is at hand.
Cast in the name of God: Ye not guilty.
Yep. The Big O is back.
And, for a different look at the Fantastic Four…
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