Stand back! I'm doing SCIENCE!

 These pictures are pulled from the page of "I fucking love science" on Facebook. I'm sure they exist elsewhere on the webs as well.

            

      

General thunkin'

An interesting question was posed to me today; if something exists but nothing is around to witness it, does it really exist? I suppose it goes along the lines of "if a tree falls in a forest..." This lead to a conversation about external validation, and honestly, I'm not sure I have a properly formed opinion. Perhaps because this discussion almost inevitably leads to a posturing of if we, or the universe as a whole, really exist.

Recently I've been reading The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, and I've been hearing and watching quite a bit of educational information about the possibilities that surround parallel universes, or more succinctly, a multiverse. I'm not sure I can articulate why, but there is something comforting to me to consider the theory that an infinite amount of "universes" parallel to ours exist, and every possibility of every outcome of every decision is playing out in another universe. For example, today I took a nap. In another universe, I didn't, and maybe did something productive with that time instead. In yet another universe, I didn't even come home from work, but drove to Albuquerque instead.

So, somewhere, I never made the bad decisions that I've made throughout my life. And elsewhere, I've made far worse decisions. And there's another place where the Earth exploded like fifteen years ago and no one exists anymore.

Heavy cosmic questions aside, I will be attending the Denver Comic Con next weekend. Some of the guests I was really excited to see have already bailed, but I'm sure I will enjoy myself nonetheless. I'm really hoping that the nerd/geek community at large will begin visiting Denver more often and perhaps our Comic Con will become legendary and major things will be revealed at the panels etc, etc. 'Cause I'm poor and it's a lot easier to hope for that than to make a pilgrimage to San Diego.

Plus, I think it's a fairly well known fact that every considers the big event towns to be LA, New York, Toronto, Austin, etc, but we Coloradoans know all the awesome things to be discovered here if people would get off their asses and give us a try. The clean air, amazing views, and all the things to do. Plus, the quality of our beer and water far surpasses any other. I just really like living here.

Return of the Jedi-King-Killer Tomatoes

So as I was perusing my facebook page today a friend of mine had posted a new blog entry she had written, and I thought to myself, "I wish I could keep up with a blog." Then I remembered... I already have a blog. That I haven't posted to in over a year. So I guess I'm back, though I don't particularly have anything more interesting to write than the things I was writing before.

So, as my returning post, I shall briefly recap the last year:

• Job continues to screw me over.
• Mom moved to Ireland.
• Brother getting married in 2 weeks.
• Got a new (old) car.
• Roommate moved out, subsequently stopped speaking to me.
• Decided to move to Fort Collins (have yet to execute).
• Started dating someone new.
• Went to Toronto, Canada and Chicago, Illinois in a two week road trip.
• Will be going to Europe for three weeks in July.
• In the process of launching a web comic (stay tuned for updates).

Movie review: Fast Five (and other such important news)

Saw Fast Five tonight. It was alright, everything I expected it to be; action, cars, lots of butts. Much like the other four movies. I would give it probably 2 1/2 - 3 stars out of 4, which isn't terrible. Admittedly the dialogue was super thin, but you don't go into a movie like this and expect to be wowed by what the characters are saying. Don't pay full price for it, but it's a fun distraction for two hours. 

However, I suppose more importantly, as I was walking out of the theater I was informed that the known terrorist and accused mastermind of the destruction of the World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden, was killed today by American operatives in Pakistan. I'm currently watching the coverage on CNN of the crowds gathered excitedly outside the White House. All I can say is holy balls fucking finally. Interesting that people have chosen to take to the streets around the country. I suppose in a time when our country agrees on next to nothing, it's nice to be able to take time to put that aside and just breathe a sigh of relief for one night. AMERICA, FUCK YEAH! COMIN' ALONG TO SAVE THE MOTHA FUCKIN' DAY YEAH!

Nerd Pillow Talk

 

"Okay, now you be Shatner"

I'm frankly astonished there wasn't a single "Great Scott!" orgasm or nuttin' from Back to the Future....

I would hit it so hard that whomsoever removes it shall be the next King of England...

So I'm watching the new series Camelot on starz and I'm a little unsure of how to feel about it. Thus far it's been fairly good exposition but I don't know about the players. It's mostly unknown people, although Joseph Fiennes is Merlin and Claire Forlani is Queen Igraine. I suppose that's the advantage of an extensive story being told on a network that's had good success with their original shows though, they can introduce the unknown and people will still watch. It's worked for the Spartacus series.

So far we have Arthur, who was removed from his mother's arms at birth by Merlin and given to another family to be raised, with no knowledge of his lineage, in order to keep him from becoming totalitarian like his father. Morgan, his half sister, who believes the throne is her birth right and will stop at nothing to obtain it, including black magic. Merlin, who has visions of Arthur uniting the kingdom but expects to control him as well. Kay, Arthur's loyal adoptive brother who has come with him to Camelot to help him achieve his goals. And Guinevere, who Arthur has fallen in love with, but is married to one of his knights.

I'll keep watching though, I'm looking forward to the introduction of more key characters and so forth.

And I do have to say, on a shallow point, the man who plays King Arthur's brother is smokin' hot. That is all.

A touch of random nothingess

A gem of Andy wisdom from Weeds - one of my favorite TV characters of all time.

 

Double win. Much like a ... double rainbow? Wait. That only applies to NPH.

Picture is unrelated

So in the two weeks it's been since I've had a full day off from work, my sleep schedule has shifted, and instead of staying up til 2 am and getting up whenever the hell I feel like, I've now been passing out at 11 pm latest and am consummately awake by 10 am latest. Only problem being I have nothing to do in those hours between waking up and going to work usually around 4. Clean the kitchen... check. Take a shower... check. Have lunch and watch 5 hours of a Law and Order: SVU marathon... sigh... check.  I can run all the errands I ever have in about 2 hours one day a week. Also this is also opening an ever bigger gap of nothingness on the days I don't have to work at all. Long story short I need a hobby or something.

Movie Snob in Action

So over the last week I saw two very different movies, Sucker Punch and Rango. One thing I enjoy doing the most is critiquing the things I've just spent an arm and a leg to sit through, though I've admittedly found a new theater recently, the Cinebarre off of 104th and Grant in Thornton, which only charges $5 for movies Monday-Thursday, so movie going isn't the same eye-gouging experience as it is at other theaters. On to the reviews! Mild spoilers.

Sucker Punch
Directed by Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) and starring Emily Browning, Abby Cornish and Jena Malone. I'll be blunt. I did not enjoy it. The cinematography and graphics were interesting, but overall the fight scenes were the same things we've been seeing since the first Matrix movie. And for a movie revolving around chicks in tight costumes kicking butt, that doesn't bode well. The plot is thin and the performances were so-so. A lot of up close shots of Emily Browning looking all porcelain with her fake eyelashes and doll hair. And half the freaking premise of the movie is that she can mesmerize men with her dancing, but not once do you actually see it. Not to mention we basically get "incepted" again because it's a dream within a dream.

                                    Rango

This is a movie about a reptile (voiced by Johnny Depp) who gets separated from his owners and ends up pretending to be a small town old West sheriff in the desert. My sentiments unfortunately carry over to this movie as well. It had weird animation, which I guess was supposed to be part of it's "thing", but it was kinda graphic for a kid's flick. Which I know is the new selling point to get parents to take the offspring to the movies is the promise that it will be entertaining for both parties, but this didn't feel like the case. It had a LOT of grown-up references, which wasn't it's downfall, but didn't make the movie more appealing. I just felt no real emotion towards it, it made me chuckle a bit, but I was pretty meh about the whole thing.



I hope the upcoming movies will be better than the spring movies thus far. Although, I did really enjoy Paul.

Well... it ain't Ozzy and Harriet

"Boy, you got a panty on yo head."