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Walt
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Cuppabits April 5th
Walt
After they burned Joan of Arc at the stake in 1431, then the English raked the coals to show her body, then burned the ashes twice to make sure nobody would claim relics from the event. They then threw the ashes into the river.
After all that, someone managed to come up with a bone that was supposed to have survived all of this, part of rib bone of Joan of Arc. In 1909, scientists declared that “highly probable” that the bone and a bit of cloth came from Joan.
But the bone was old. The bone was perhaps 2000 years older than Joan of Arc. It was actually part of a mummified cat. [NYTimes]
I mean, if you have to run a hoax, you might as well do it with some style, and a bit of 2000 year old cat femur sure is stylin’…
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LOST was mostly filler. I’m guessing next week, a Juliet-centric ep, will try to make us care about the relatively cold and aloof pregnancy specialist.
We did get to see the monster… twice. One time we have the real organic thing and the other we have the clanking smoke monster. Either the show bosses are screwing up, or there’s two separate things acting like a monster.
Oh, and someone tell me why Jack slept an extra 12 hours on his gaseous Mickey Finn. The girls drugged by the same gas bomb, were in the jungle (how did they get that far out? Dragged? That far? Why?), the girls got wet, muddy, bitchy, and then had to spend the entire night hiding, come all the way back into camp, and there’s Jack, still passed out on the floor. Wuss.
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Relatively speaking, the planet Mars has warmed more in the last two decades than the Earth has in the last hundred years. [Register][PhysOrg]
I’ve never bought into the warming / cooling trend explanation by the Milankovitch Cycles. While I know that there’s some effect, it’s not the whole picture. It’s the Sun. That’s the big variable. But, like many theories in Science, it’s very hard to prove.
And for the record, I LIKE Global Warming.
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Alaska hates Global Warming and will stay at near record cold for the week. [link]
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You’ve seen plenty of firefighters fight fire with water.
Here’s where some Chinese firefighters confront a murder suspect in a hostage situation in a hospital.
sound not req’d
Splashdown!
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For a guy who can’t sing, Sangina’s face is everywhere.
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Technically, this isn’t porn. It does have breasts bouncing up and down, but it’s for science.
And a good bra. [via Gizmodo] (flash req’d)
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Yes, the mayor of Cincinnati really can’t throw. [Jimmy Kimmel]
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That’s it folks. Remember don’t shoot the Easter Bunny. That magical bunny that can deliver chocolate is the reason we celebrate the holiday, after all.
Meanwhile, I’m going to pitch a new reality game show to the television networks.
It’s going to be called
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN THE PRESIDENT?
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#2
I wish you could’ve seen the easter South Park last night that explained how the easter bunny worship came about.
I bet I’m smarter than the prez.
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Walt
Bekke’s cat is smarter than the president. Monster can open doors
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The Perfessor
Monster can open doors
My son’s cat, Peanut, like Pixel before her, can actually walk through walls.
And no Walt, I’m not kidding. For the record, my daily bottle of Uncle Jack had nothing to do with this observation.
The Perfessor
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Bekke
Yes, thanks for the plug. I’m still freaking out. He tried to get into the bedroom this morning. Might not seem like that big of a deal, but for allergy reasons we’ve always kept them out of the bedroom. Now it seems like we’ll have to start locking the door.
My theory is that indoor cats just don’t know they’re cats, even if there is another cat in the house (you’d think they’d look at the other cat and us and think, “He’s like me; they’re not.”), but no. I’m pretty sure they think they’re human. That’s why they open the cabinet doors, because we open cabinet doors, and so we had to child proof the cabinets. That’s why Monster “talks” all the time…because we talk. And that’s why he thinks he can open doors.
And clearly, he can. That cat is such a pain in the ass. *sighs*
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Bekke
Oh, and LOST. I enjoyed it, if only because Sawyer is starting to get too cute for words.
They shouldn’t trust Juliet for a second. I hope Sayyid tortures her next time. Now that would be an interesting episode.
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Walt
Re: Sawyer —
No, I will never believe that a con man can be that gruff all the time without the ability to easily turn on the charm. Sawyer’s character is built around a con man who doesn’t remember how to be nice to people.
Thus, the Hurley con on him.
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Bekke
Yeah, DH totally called Hurley’s con right away.
I’m guessing Sawyer was having trouble because he wasn’t actually trying to con anyone with his charm. So it was more like he was trying to be genuine. But that might be reading too much into the character. Anyway, he’s going soft, dontcha know. He held a baby!
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Walt
yeah, two softening of the hearts this week with a baby. First House and now Sawyer.
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Walt
Oh, and just in case you want to see what the monster on LOST did this week…
Live Motion on Smokey (vid)
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Exodus, as told by Lego blocks
Walt
When you absolutely positively need the Book of Exodus retold by Legos
here in this exciting scene,
Aaron throws down his staff in front of Pharaoh, and it turns into a serpent.
Click the image for the source page and the rest of the exciting story!!
Here’s another from the Second Plague
Be sure to read the entire Bible in this new and exciting format!
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DUDE
Jason and I found this many many many months ago and were keeping it a secret.
Boo you for outing lego jesus! -
Walt
It’s interesting that all the Israelites looks suspiciously like Jedi…
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The Perfessor
While this one was fun and all, I was more entertained (and impressed) by the Lego porn that Walt showed me years ago.
The Perfessor
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Walt
Well, seeing that the Lego Bible site has illustrations about many things Biblical, here’s the portion that deals with sexual discharges (Warning: Lego people having sex)
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The Perfessor
Can I say, ewwww.
The Perfessor
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Cuppabits April 4th
Walt
As of this writing, The 15 captured British military personnel were being freed from the clutches of the Iranian mullah-tocracy.
Iranian President Ahmadinejad (pictured above in the tan jacket) says 15 are to be pardoned and freed as “gift to British people”The gift the Brits gave in return was a pair of elevator shoes once worn by Tom Cruise. [CNN]
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The American troop surge into the Iraq capital has squished out the terrorists into the outlying regions, but this makes Baghdad a safer place, temporarily. [ABC News Video]
More American troops, more safety. The Dems want the Americans to leave.
What could go right?
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A summary of a few copyright infringing video sites from TechCrunch [Techcrunch]
There are other YouTube clones out there not interested in hosting copyrighted material.
This video is from a site hosting how-to videos.
In the below case, how do you get a very large excavator off of a smaller flatbed?
Don’t click if you don’t want to know. It’s not funny, it’s just educational.
sound not req’d.The concept is, eventually, there will be instructions on how to do most everything available on the web.
Since Google is so invested in YouTube, will they take the time to properly catalog these other video sites? Probably not. Someone will.
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Now this is funny.
What does the ump do when you throw a “First Pitch” like this?
Eject the pitcher from the game!
In this case it’s the mayor. News hounds being what they are, they ask him about it.
Politician that he is, asks for a “Do Over” [link]
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And this is cute
The dog wants the ball
The ball is in the water.
The dog doesn’t want to go into the water to get the ball.
Click to see what happens next.
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Alison’s blog today has guest blog by an author who is a NYTimes Bestselling Author… who had to reinvent herself.
I finally threw in the towel, career-wise.
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The end of Jack Bauer’s day in 24 involves an oil rig being bombed by a fighter jet.[rumor]
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The Guy Rules
Men are NOT mind readers.
Learn to work the toilet seat.
Youre a big girl. If its up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
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And finally, the more ethanol we use as a fuel source, the higher prices for things that would otherwise be created using that corn. Milk prices, beef prices, all manner of food stuffs… they’re all affected by the higher prices of corn because corn is in demand to make fuel. Not to mention the fertilizer and water required to raise those additional crops.
You want to eat cheap or drive? [CNN]
I never thought I’d side with Fidel Castro on anything.
save the poor starving Cubans and drill in Alaska!
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#2
Personally, I’m anti-enthanol.
Ever since I started noticing the “May contain up to 10% Ethanol” on the gas pumps, my car has been nothing but trouble.
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Alison
Love the dog! So smart! Love it!
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The Perfessor
Not for nothing, but as long as we are on the subject of Ethanol-leavened gas, you’ll all want to read this little bit about the gas not being, well, Kosher for Passover (currently being observed).
The reason, Ethanol is derived from corn, and corn is considered a bread product. Hey, I didn’t make this up, some one else did, and you can read it here.
The Perfessor
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Walt
hahahaha!! April Fools joke indeed!!
You are aware that “corn” technically isn’t mentioned in any of the religious documents of the Old World…
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Bekke
You are aware that “corn” technically isn’t mentioned in any of the religious documents of the Old World…
Good one. Perfectly snarkalicious.
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The Perfessor
You are aware that “corn” technically isn’t mentioned in any of the religious documents of the Old World…
Oh, like that actually matters to anyone, eh?
As for the TechCrunch vid, now I’d like to see how they get it back on the flatbed.
The Perfessor
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Alison
Wouldn’t “bread” be a “corn” product, and not vice versa?
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Walt
Not too many corn products call for leavening. Ergo, no bread.
Five grains involved in the ruling
wheat, barley, spelt (a close cousin of wheat), oats, rye.Corn can’t be considered bread, but… if you ever tried to make leavened bread using just corn meal, you’d have pretty poor luck.
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The Perfessor
Hey, I don’t make the rules (or, for that matter, even care about them), I’m just here
to ridicule the folk who think that any of this mattersto post what comes across my (messy) desk.Oh, and for what its worth, my Father-In-Law that level of “observance” is rather goofy as well.
The Perfessor
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Cuppabits April 3rd
Walt
cue the music from the shower scene in PSYCHO
EEE! EEE! EEE!
Scariest thought? That picture isn’t photoshopped. [AP]
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— Got you coming and going –
The Government now has the power over your gaseous emissions
The EPA can now regulate the greenhouse gasses coming from your tailpipe, according to yesterday’s ruling by the Supreme Court. Technically, it now only relates to automobiles, but it won’t be long before someone figures out that your flatus (fart gas) and your breathing ALSO contribute to man made global warming, so someone from the minions of Al Gore may have someone come up to you one day and ask you to save the planet by limiting your breathing.
Welcome to 1984.
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Big Brother knows when you pick your nose
The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell’s 1984 has become a reality – in the shadow of the author’s former London home.
On the wall outside his former residence – flat number 27B – where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.
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Of last weekend’s MEET THE ROBINSONS movie, only 13% of the screens were shown with that new fangled 3-D process. Those 3-D showings accounted for 28% of the film’s opening weekend take, and amounted to the biggest 3-D opening to date.[Hollywood Reporter]
They’re going to re-release NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS in 3-D again before Halloween — it did well enough last year and that’s the next 3-D release to theaters.
But in November… Ah, we have a 3-D version of the legend BEOWULF that has so much interesting talent around it, I’ll be surprised if this isn’t the hit of the early Winter season. No, it’s not live-action – it’ll be done like POLAR EXPRESS, only without the “dead-eye” syndrome.[AICN]
BEOWULF will be the first cool movie to see in 3-D. I hope they don’t kiddie-fy it down.
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Trust, but verify
The guy who over estimated the number of hurricanes last year said that this year will be more active than last year.
The Main Stream Media are quick to tout William Grey’s 2007 hurricane predictions as some sort of semi-official prediction (until the National Weather Service comes out with their prediction sometime in May)
but they seem to forget he’s also known for this:
The words “global warming” provoke a sharp retort from Colorado State University meteorology professor emeritus William Gray: “It’s a big scam.”
So, does this mean we can believe him about hurricanes but can discount his views on global warming?
Good thing I agree with him on the global warming thing.
I just don’t believe his hurricane predictions.
I’m kind of contrary that way.
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All that online video… sounds like you need someone to put an online video search tool together [link]
Video meme search tool… isn’t that like trying to herd kittens?
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Vonage may have cut a couple of the legs out from the patent infringement case, and may yet live. It’s not official yet. [ArsTech]
Vonage hasn’t completely dodged all the infringement issues, but probably some of the worst offenses are taken care of.
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Bookmarked so I can read this later.
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The show that NBC put in Studio 60’s spot fared about the same or worse than Studio 60 did and has been cancelled. [Variety]
TV producers, here’s a clue: MAKE ME CARE ABOUT THE CHARACTERS
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Finally,
It’s not marketing when something really performs as advertised
You may not have planted your garden as yet, but I have some tomato plants that are so big, they look like they belong in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. I should share some pics.
Normally, I would say that stuff like that Miracle Gro container soil-mix is marketing baloney, but in this case, I have to tip my hat.
UPDATE: See the comments for the tomato pics.
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Walt
UPDATE
Here’s a couple of pics.
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Alison
Tomatoes! Yum!
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#2
I wonder how miracle gro would work for, uh….. herbs.
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Walt
herbs? I’m sure Oregano would do fine in that stuff.
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The Perfessor
Psst, #2, quite a number years of personal experience indicates that this answer is a resounding ah, yep.
Oh, and Walt, didn’t you take me to task last July 4th when I used the same flag post? I believe that I’ve seen this header before.
The Perfessor
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Walt
Well, the chocolate Jesus was already taken
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The Perfessor
Heh, a likely story.
The Perfessor
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#2
Yeah… oregano…
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My Humps by Alanis Morissette
Walt
It makes you want to question your sexuality.
Talk about ironic.
Sound and understanding of the appeal of the original version necessary
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Captain America is still dead
The Perfessor
Only not for long, or at least that is what this guy is saying. According to Joe Gross Whats Good blog, Cap simply won wont stay that way for long, and heres why:1) In most cases, a comic book character only dies when it makes financial sense for him or her to do so.
2) In most cases, a comic book character only stays dead for as long as it makes financial sense for him or her to do so.
3) In most cases, a comic book character will come back to life when it makes financial sense for him or her to do so.
Of course if you need more reasons, Gross, goes on to say…
4) Theres not a tremendous amount of evidence to suggest the death of Captain America is any sort of exception to the above three rules. It is most cases.
Still not convinced? Well, he has eight more reasons. Needless to say, for me, the most susinctly salient reason why Cap wont stay dead came from my ol buddy John Wilcox, who when I saw him the other day was wearing a Captain America T-shirt and simply said, Cap wont stay dead, Marvel has too much money tied up in underoosNow theres logic that you cant beat with a stick (even one made out of Adamantium).
The Perfessor
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Cuppabits April 2nd
Walt
Running late today. No Foolin?
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Lots of fallout from the variety of April Fool’s Day jokes out there.
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I got to see one. I drove thru the Best Buy / BabiesRUs / Bennigans parking lot on the way to Home Depot yesterday evening. One small car was covered with white Post-It notes. From roof to windows to bumper to tires. Every inch had a Post-It note on there. I drove by later and the owner, who was obviously a worker in one of these strip mall locations, had scraped off the car enough to drive, as a flurry of Post-It litter was all that remained of the prank. I could just see that car driving home…
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Thinkgeek put up several obviously fake geek items for sale as part of their April Fool’s Day routine, and one of them was so popular, they’ve decided to actually make the item. [ThinkGeek] (check the right column for their capitulation notice)
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Google had their Free Wireless Internet offer, which I thought was cute. What better than to flush a wire down a toilet? What will they offer to give away next year? Free computers? Wait, no… that joke was so last century, and by joke, I mean it really happened and it didn’t last as long as their free computers did.
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Google also had their promise of mailing you your Gmail supported by ad space.
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Here’s a better collection of April Fool’s Day pranks on the web– — –
Being that it’s April, we can talk about the tax man. Here’s five of the most overlooked tax tidbits.
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Finally, it’s Opening Day.
Baseball is not the ultimate sport. It’s just a great game.
Excuse me while I find a seat and a warm bag of peanuts.
For the rest of you who don’t like baseball, here’s a story about cute kittens.
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The only April Fool’s prank I experienced was looking at the Daily Puppy website.. only it was the Daily Guppy. heh.
I thought maybe the WWE “battle of the billionaires” was going to end up as a hoax and no head shaving would occur, but alas, I was wrong.
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taylor k.
I loved the kitten video, I laughed so hard! Thanks!
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Bekke
One small car was covered with white Post-It notes.
Those kind of “April Fool’s jokes” are so stupid. They’re just dumb pranks. The point is to fool someone into believing something that’s not true. It’s amazing how many people just don’t get that!
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Walt
Maybe they wanted the owner of the car to think that she needed to pick up her messages…
I dunno, I got nothing.
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Bekke
Nothing, indeed.
To my husband, every day is April Fool’s Day. And then he’s amazed when people who know him refuse to believe a word he says…
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The Perfessor
Running late today. No Foolin?
Just a question, if you are always running late, doesn’t that just make you right on time?
As for every day being April Fools Day (and being something of a prankster myself), and not being believed by folks when I tell them something — yeah, I get that too.
In regards to opening day. I tell my son every year — You know what the difference is in the following list?:
• Your dog
• Your drum
• Your son
• A hot dog at Shea on opening day?Well you can beat your dog, you can beat your drum, and you can beat your son, but you just can’t beat a hot dog at Shea on opening day.
To which, he inevitably agrees.
Opening day, one game played, and both the Mets and the Yanks are in first place, what could be better than this?
The Perfessor
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All Spidey, all the Time!
The Perfessor
Thats right kids, its time for you to prepare for the inevitable, as New York prepares to receive native son Spider-Man into its warm embrace. May 4th is when Spider-Man 3 debuts and as a lead-up to that wonders, web-slinging event, The Big Apple is preparing to honor Spidey in a way that would make The Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson blanch if her were a real person.How do I know all of this? Simple I read it in Sundays NY Daily News, and now, so too can you…Your friendly neighborhood wall-crawler! From April 30 to May 6, the city will be host to Spider-Man Week in NYC, a five-borough-wide celebration encompassing more than two-dozen live events, screenings, parties and exhibits. It’s all part of honoring the city that has been central to the Marvel Comics legend since his beginning in 1962 and right through the new “Spider-Man 3,” opening May 4.
(Read the rest here)
As for behind-the-scenes info on the Spidey-Flick itself, you can read that here.
If you want to see some pics from the upcoming film, then you can go here.
Personally, Im hoping that there will be a midnight showing of the film so that I can stay up late, watch it with the other funnybook-geek friends of mine, and then go to work all bleary-eyed the next morning.
Cap may be dead(
for now), but Spidey is still alive and kicking!The Perfessor
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Dolphin Hunter, er, Humper
Walt
This is
for the one who
loves dolphinsSound not req’d
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Meet The Robinsons - Walt's Quick Review
Walt
It’s animated, it’s CGI,
it’s fast,
it’s frenetic,
it’s
MEET THE ROBINSONS[IMDB]
Okay, the frogs are just okay. They could have been much cooler. But if you don’t like something in this movie, wait 15 seconds and you’ll be given something else entirely.
MEET THE ROBINSONS is a movie that people with ADD will think was made by people on meth. It’s all over the place, but that’s okay.
For the five of you in the audience that are still smoking pot, yes, be happy, this movie is for you. Just get nicely baked and pay your money, put on your 3-D glasses and sit back and enjoy. You don’t have to be stoned on ganja to watch MEET THE ROBINSONS, but I can’t see it hurting one bit.
Go see this with a crowd. Which means tonight or sometime this weekend, because I can’t see hordes of people purposefully walking into a G-rated Disney movie.
Which is a shame, really, because this has a few themes that the kid in all of us will enjoy. Sure, you’ve grown out of simple movie fare like this, but it’s still worth a watch.
The problem is, if you don’t see it in the theater, you’ll never get a chance to see it in 3-D as God and Walt Disney (same thing in some circles) intended. This is not the movie that lends itself to a DVD screening. The 3-D, if you haven’t seen the Disney 3-D movie setup yet, makes this movie pop with a candy-coated-blind-your-eyes with-light-until-they-bleed view of the future — and by watching it in 2-D you’ll just be blinded. You might as well be blinded by watching it in 3-D.
Sorry for the blurry image in the above screen grab. You can seen in the background the city of the future. Apparently, the first thing to go in the future is right angles. I dare you to find more than one or two once Lewis takes Will into the future to rescue… well, I won’t give anything away. Suffice to say that Will invents a gizmo, someone steals it, and while the device itself isn’t important to the plot, the fact that Will is going to the future to get it back kind of sort of IS.
The movie is appropriate for all ages. I mean by that it’s not purely for kids. Adults will think it’s cute, and the kids will just be awed by the candy coated colors of the future. Not a fart joke in the movie, which for G-rated humor is kind of rare these days.
Adam West is the voice of a small character part, a guy who looks like a superhero, but actually delivers pizzas… like it was indeed a mission to save the galaxy.
And Tom Selleck… kind of plays… well… Tom Selleck. I mean, they show Tom’s picture and everything.
The moral to the movie gets hammered in with such force you’ll yell at the screen for it to stop. It’s even on the last frame of the movie, in a quote by… Well, this IS a Disney movie.
Oh, and you get a cartoon in front of the movie. It’s a Chip and Dale cartoon from the early 1950s. It was Disney’s first attempt at 3-D cartooning, and it will hurt your head to watch it, but essentially it’s 2-D art on cels that are lifted off of the background and so it’s like looking at the old style 3-D steroscope viewer toy from the early 60s.
Anyway, most theaters are showing the 2-D as well as the 3-D version. Obviously avoid the 2-D, and if your theater doesn’t have the 3-D version, tell the theater owner to get with it, and order up one of those pricey screens and projectors — you’re there because you can’t get the same view on your own TV, after all. And then find that 3-D equipped theater and enjoy.
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Alison
My husband is five.
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Walt
And if I ever grow older, I’m going to hold my breath until I change back again.
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The Perfessor
Personally, I’m 12, but that’s only because the girls are cuter.
The Perfessor
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#2
I’ll get baked and go see it with a pregnoid.
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Walt
they reran the 3-D trailer for NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, because I’m sure this year they’ll play it again in October. Dunno why… oh, that’s right, they made $8million at the theater when they did that.
We’ll have to wait to see if this 3-D thing really takes off enough for more adult fare in 3-D comes down the pike. It’s a shame that only kids get to see these 3-D movies.
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The Perfessor
It’s a shame that only kids get to see these 3-D movies.
Dude! Are you tellin’ me that you didn’t ever see Jaws 3D?
A shame!
The Perfessor
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Cuppabits March 30th
Walt
April Fools comes up but twice a year.
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The most haunted item on Ebay is a doll that has a great Ebay page to go with it, complete with spooky toy piano type tinkle sounds. Apparently, the baby doll possesses the spirit of ripoff artists long past, and positively glows with the prospect of ripping you off as well!– — –
If you kill the sharks, you lose the shellfish too![ArsTech]
Along the North Carolina coast, the shellfish industry has been hit hard by the increase in cownose rays that don’t have shark predators anymore.
Since I’m allergic to scallops but not cownose rays, how is this a problem?
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As mentioned in the comments yesterday, McCain endorsed hot lesbian action.[WizBang]
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Some French guy is going to explain the method of building the pyramids that might have some basis in fact. He’ll hold a news conference today, but according to this article in the Independent
Some old microgravity studies indicate there’s an internal ramp system that’s still inside the pyramid. External ramps would have required too much additional support and ramps on the outside of the pyramid would have left some markings somewhere.
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Yes, Vista can be exploited by an old flaw that was never patched.[McAfee]
It has to do with animated cursors (.ANI) files. While I don’t know anyone that still uses animated cursors, I imagine that emails with that attachment might be emailed in spam…
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Fun Investment Fact:
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Whenever Vanity Fair breaks a record for ad pages, the stock market crashes immediately afterward [Brandweek]
The Vanity Fair in question was delivered in February, merely miliseconds before the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed, going from 12,647 to 12,114. The link has more examples. [via Gawker]
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The Geico Caveman TV series won’t have the Geico cavemen in it. Other cavemen have been cast[Variety]
Yeah, I don’t care either. All those cavemen look alike.
Wait… Does that comment make me look racist?
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I’ll be off to see the movie MEET THE ROBINSONS a Disney 3-D movie that rumor has is much funnier and much more fun than the trailers you see on TV.
While you can watch this movie in the normal 2-D way, if you haven’t seen a movie in this Disney 3-D yet, you really ought to treat yourself. Yeah, you pay an extra couple of bucks for the glasses, but I have mine from an earlier movie, and I don’t pay that extra fee, so the cost of the movie is the same. As goofy as it might seem to wear glasses to the theater, even glasses that go over your glasses like I have… it’s worth it.
One review on this movie said that you DO have to use your brains during the movie because it involves time travel and causality.
Also, the frogs rock.
We’ll see.
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The bit you may have heard about Paypal working to make payments through your mobile phone has Visa working overtime to do something a bit more universal [Register]
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My favorite April Fool’s Day Hoax that I actually bought into (for a short while)
can be seen here as #2 of the 100 Greatest April Fool’s Day Hoaxes
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the “art of the pitch” in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa.” Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams’s amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton.
The key in George Plimpton’s article was the sub-heading which read:
“He’s a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd’s deciding about yoga and his future in baseball.”
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Have A Happy April Fool’s Day, and don’t get fooled!
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How the Chocolate Easter Bunny got Associated with Easter
The Perfessor
Some posts need a lead-up, others dont.
This is one of the latter.
Just so were clear: Yes, that is a Choholate Jesus. (The actual image can be found here.)
The two things that I do want to know,are:
a) Like the rabbit it represents, is it hollow?
b) If you were going to eat this figure (and Im not advocating that anyone should, or even would want to), would you bite its head off first?
Theres actually a third question, (a follow-up to b) but Im going to skip it as just too twisted even for me to posit in this forum.Now, I needthat drink.
The Perfessor
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Walt
Don’t eat Jesus’ chocolate penis because it might be filled with the creamy blessings of the Holy Chocolate Spirit?
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Walt
Wait a minute!
Jesus doesn’t have a ponytail!
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The Perfessor
Don’t eat Jesus’ chocolate penis because it might be filled with the creamy blessings of the Holy Chocolate Spirit?
That’s not what Fr. Reacharound told me.
Jesus doesn’t have a ponytail!
…and yes, I do! Or rather, I did.
OK, now I’m going to Hell!The Perfessor
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Alison
That’s about the most unappetizing thing I’ve ever seen, and I’m all about the chocolate.
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The Perfessor
Loved the April Fool’s gags, I actually recall hearing of some of them, especially the Taco Liberty Bell, although, they way I heard it that Taco Bell was so reviled over the stunt, that they donated several thousands of dollars to help subsidize the fund to refurbish and re-house the Liberty Bell.
The Perfessor
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Walt
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Yes Virginia, Captain America is still Dead!
The Perfessor
Yes boys and girls, it is really true, Cap is gone. really gone. We know this because weve seen his body in Civil War, the Confession. In this comic, we see Iron Man pouring out his soul and anguish to the deceased courpse of the late great Icon of America.Stark is clearly distraught over what has occured, he never meant for it to get this bad. He had his reasons, he thought what he was doing was noble and just, and he felt that he was right, only he never meant for his old friend to die in the processes.
Captain America is dead, and all the world will mourn him. Marvel will spin the event into a year-long series of comicbooks celebrating the life of the American Patraiot, while at the same time bemoaning his loss (and racking up a great profit at his expense. If there was ever any doubt as to Cap being dead, all you have to do is to view the following panel, from The Confession.
I say again. Cap is a dead man, miss him, miss him. We should drink to his memory.
The Perfessor
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JR
yeah well he’s gotta come back in 2009 just in time for the movie. Like Superman got cloned in Cadmus labs to make superBOY…Just wait you’ll see.
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The Perfessor
This just in, Scuttlebut has it that there will be 6-9 months of other people filling in for the dearly-departed Cap, then we will have a new story arc where he comes back.
Think about it, House of M lasted about a year; Civil War went just over a year; we are now in The Iniatiative phse of CW, so that will be just about right for Cap’s triumphant return.
or, as my guod buddy John Wilcox said to me, “Marvel has too much money tied up in Underoos for Captain America to be dead.”
Amen to that, brother. Amen!
The Perfessor
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Cuppabits - Rapping Karl Rove Edition
Walt
This AP video hosted at the Washington Post has a rapping and dancing Karl Rove. [WaPo]About halfway through Karl gets his dancing on to the extent I thought he was having the demons cast out of him. Truly and utterly bizarre.
Be careful as you gaze upon the genius that is Karl Rove dancing. He can mesmerize you. He can turn the world on with his smile. He can take a useless president and suddenly make him seem worthwhile.
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It’s the same dinner where President Bush described his recent situation thusly
“A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone,” President Bush said Wednesday night.
“Ah,” he said, “those were the good ol’ days.”
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LOST last night was another filler episode. We got to see some flashbacks from some characters that, if they were on the Original Star Trek, they’d be wearing red shirts.
The two that get buried alive (hey! It’s not a spoiler if it has nothing to do with the show!!)
could get dug up by the dog next week.True, it’s a long time to be buried, but as we all know, time on the island doesn’t pass at the same rate it passes everywhere else.
We got to see the guy we think is Gary Troup get sucked into that engine again, but apparently, Gary Troup is still alive
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It probably didn’t make the news where you live, but here in Houston, we had a fire in a six story office building that killed a few and injured a few more.
Yes, a high-rise in Chicago has a few rags burn on the roof, it gets the front page of Drudge.
Flames engulfing and killing folks in high rise that shuts down a freeway in Houston… nada.
UPDATE: apparently, being a SIX story office building makes this a “Mid-Rise” fire.
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When Republican operatives in the White House decide to start using their own email server to toss mail around instead of the ultra secure WhiteHouse.gov system, there’s going to be security and subpoena issues that might eventually come to the fore.
No evidence quite yet. No reason to go fishing. But if the Dems ever decide to go fishing, NOT using the official system means your communication isn’t protected by “Executive Privilege”
“We just got a bit lazy,” said one aide. “We knew E-mails could be subpoenaed. We saw that with the Clintons but I don’t think anybody saw that we were doing anything wrong.”
But the release of White House emails to the Democrats and the expanded request for more from Rep. Henry Waxman has iced the system. At least two aides said that they have subsequently bought their own private E-mail system through a cellular phone or Blackberry server. When asked how he communicated, one aide pulled out a new personal cellphone and said, “texting.”
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Jon Stewart’s rant on Atty Gen. Gonzales is worth a watch
Incompetent or a liar. Most likely both. Only Stewart says it funnier.
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And finally, from the “He’s Still Got It” category…
A scene from the JJ Abrams show, ALIAS, with Jennifer Garner as super spy Syndey Bristow.
Here she is, in their super secret headquarters, and they get… a new partner…
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Actually, from what I heard they now consider anything above 75 feet to be high-rise.
Funny thing – I heard about it on the way home, but then I saw the news and with the big 9343 numbers and yellow 713-777-RENT sign hanging I realized that, damn! I had just updated that property yesterday!
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Walt
how much empty space WAS available in there before the incident??
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Bekke
All I have to say about last night’s LOST was…WTF was the point?
And the preview of next week’s episode looks to consist entirely of Kate and Juliet running through the jungle, getting wet, and slapping each other. Oh, I can’t WAIT…
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Alison
I’m so glad I’m now sleeping instead of watching LOST. I get a personal recap every Thursday morning on the 8 minute drive to the bus. Works for me.
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The Perfessor
The Alias/Colombo piece was wet your pants funny.
However, I do have to say this about the Rapping Karl Rove video. If top-ranking Dems had done the very same thing they would have been blasted by the conservative right, as well as the NAACP for their disgustingly insulting behavior.
As for Gonzales, this administration is so far up their own (and each other’s) ass that the population of the US should simply declare a vote of no confidence in the lot of them and declare anarchy in the streets. We would have a better chance of getting justice.
The Perfessor
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The Perfessor 11:26 am on 4/6/2007 Permalink
In my house we call that year of debauchery SOP (Standard Operating Procedure, or, you know, Tuesday), so stop trying to Bogart the Ganja. I hear there’s a new Paris, Lindsey, and Britney vid (entitled Bimbos of the Apocalypse Go Wild!) to down load
Yippie-Ki-Aye, Mo-Fu!
The Perfessor