"Ash" Wednesday

Traditionally I watch a Bruce Campbell movie every year for 'Ash' Wednesday. This year the movie was


If I ever create a drinking game it would have to never include "take a shot for every reference to another movie featuring Bruce Campbell" because you'd be wasted in 15 minutes! Not a great movie, but BC directs and stars in

“My Name is Bruce” is liberally peppered with references to all things Bruce. There are familiar faces in the cast, memorable props are plentiful, venerated quotes are rehashed, and in-jokes abound. This is pretty much a love it or hate it film…it all depends on how you look at it. Bruce is a true caricature here. He hauls in the personalities of some of his more notorious character portrayals combined with a few of the worst possible stereotypes of big-name actors to create a walking parody. He is arrogant, annoying, smarmy, lecherous, vulgar, whiny, and pathetic. He is also not afraid to poke fun at himself and his career throughout this movie, which is one of the reasons he is such a legendary fan favorite and why this movie is already on the way to becoming the newest notch in his cult-status belt. Groovy!

Here's the story in song-form (from the movie)



Not convinced? Click HERE for an interview of BC from the most reliable, reputable, resourcefull news in the universe... the Onion

oh, and lastly this tasty little morsel of BC goodness

you know you want it!

Prison Break! -and- Qui-gon goes international

No, not the Fox show alternately titled "Beating a Dead Horse". Here's a pretty good adaptation from the upcoming Watchmen movie of OwlMan (with an uncanny likeness of another DC character) and the Silk Spectre busting in to the prison where the man Rorschack is being held...

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

This weekend I watched Taken.
It. Was. Awesome. He can take Jason Bore(ne) any day.

Roughly adapted:

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career (as a JEDI MASTER). Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you (and SITH LORDS). If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you (with my LIGHTSABER). "

Liam also (in my opinion) should have been Bond in the 90's instead of Balki from Perfect Strangers (with facial hair).

wait, that was Remmington Steele. I digress.

How dare you Roger Ebert. How dare you

How dare you Roger Ebert. How dare you!

a.k.a. Jerk-off

The last paragraph of the above blog has incited a sort-of uprising amongst the faithful. Don't be surprised if in the coming weeks there is an assault on the callow, pompus tool. i have always loathed this clown since Sneak Previews (before At the Movies) and would love to chairface this ass monkey... not because he's inept at actually forming his own opinion on movies (b/c he only likes movies that he's "supposed to" and probably paid to like), or because he doesn't like my kind of movies (okay, mainly because of this) but because he's an arrogant prick of a human. He wants to make fun of ppl who camp out to be first in a movie? Hey Dillhole, you get PAID to see movies BEFORE they get released! I'm sure if there was a Grand Opening at Dunkin Donuts, or Ponderosa/Shakey's you'd be first in line for that with you're gold trim bib and you'd have to park right up to the buffet to gorge yourself... wanna know how i really feel? anyway...

From Ebert's "Answer Man" column in the Chicago Sun-Times (this guy's question is great, first sentence is everything Ebert could never be)

Q. As a high school teacher, father, husband and "Star Wars" fan, I must register my offense at your "Fanboys" review. My involvement with the "Star Wars" fandom lifestyle has brought me countless memories and friendships. It has opened the door to relationships with my students and colleagues I would otherwise been ignorant of. I am among a legion of "Star Wars" fans. It's time you stopped posing for your fellow critics.

You've obviously caught a lot of flak for your favorable review of "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace." Perhaps you're slinging mud at what appears to be an easy target as a means of earning back some credibility. Look at the breadth and depth of the community you alienate. We are doctors, lawyers, teachers, priests, authors, actors, accountants, custodians, social workers, construction workers and more. We are too big to be dismissed.
Matthew Schnaare, via e-mail

A. I have received a lot of unhappy feedback from that review, in which I wrote: "Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies." I have now learned many things about myself, most of which I cannot print here, although they solved the puzzle of what I would do with a third thumb. I was unfair in referring to all fans, when the ones I was thinking of were the heroes of "Fanboys."

...in other words,

Triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13

One of the most common fears, but still senseless, even Adolf Hitler was triskaidekaphobic. There a specific fear of Friday the 13th as well, called paraskavedekatriaphobia. Tetraphobia is the fear of the number 4, more popular in China, Japan, and Korea.

Happy Friggatriskaidekaphobia (irrational fear of Friday the 13th)
Enjoi

Random Thoughts II

-I have beheld the power of cheese. It does not burn very well.

-My wife proudly handed me one of Jordyn's drawings tonight. She asked, "What do you think this is a picture of?" to which I replied, "I am not sure, but it looks infected." Based upon her reaction, I failed to correctly identify the subject of my daughter's artwork.
(It was supposed to be a train - in case you were wondering.)

-Near my sister's house there was a sign in front of a roadside store. It advertised "Apple Cider, Live Crabs, & Mulch." Talk about a lifesaver if you need to pick up those three items, but don't have time to make three stops.

I used to play "Oregon Trail" on the old Apple computer we had at school, but was not very good at it. As a result, I had to watch all my friends and family (I named my family in the game after them) either die of dysentery or drown. Mostly, it was dysentery. Imagine the horror of a young boy when he goes to the library and actually researches dysentery. After that I began naming the members of my family after my mortal enemies in school. Sometimes they made it all the way, but most often they were buried in shallow graves many miles before bloody diarrhea finished me off as well.

Impressions of a Dark Lord I

Impressive. Most impressive.

Giant Darth Vader Inflatable - The coolest bouncy castle in the world.


Darth Vader from Family Guy - Nothing is more depressing then seeing the guy who killed Obi Wan working as a meter maid.

Darth Vader Burger King Mascot - Advertising inflatable from Burger King, does anyone else think his hands look like the Swedish Chef’s?

Darth Vader Steampunk - With a lightsaber made of steam and a monocle?

How Much Would A Death Star Cost Today?

I found this awesome blog. Very long, but insightful And humorous. Hope you enjoi.
My post doesn't do justice so...
Full Story HERE

Welcome
One Death Star for $15 Septillion? What a deal!
Written By: Ryszard Gold
Edited By: Jayson Joynt

Yes, Septillion, that is a 1, followed by 24 zeros.

A very, VERY large number, especially when it concerns money. And why is it a deal? Because that figure ignores a lot of very important costs. Cost for what? Why to build a Death Star of course!

One evening sitting on my rather run down couch, channel surfing, I came across Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The scene I happened to tune in too featured multitudes of little space ships flying in and around Darth Vaders behemoth of a killer space station, the Death Star.

Thanks the the magic of ILM and the imagination of the series creator George Lucas, we get the scale of this phenomenal construct. You see “spacescrapers” towering over the surface of the moon-like station, valleys that would put the Grand Canyon to shame, and a virtually level horizon line.

While watching this, an odd question popped into my head, “How much would it cost to build the damn thing?”. Impossible to figure out? Truthfully … yes. A complete and utter waste of time, absolutely! So why not try and find out!

Judging by the figure up there, you’ll know why The Emperor was so pissed when the rebels destroyed his monstrosity, and why he was clearly running low on his budget for the second!

So, the “yes” part up there; there are way to many variables to take into consideration to get an accurate cost on a God-like project like this. Hell, it’s science fiction, it could have been constructed by the snap of some Q-like entities fingers. But lets forget Q’s, Darth Vaders, and an entire bag of impossible things to calculate, and answer what we can.

After boiling it down, I ask this question: “In US dollars, what would the cost of materials and delivery to space be for the Death Star?”

So there we go, and yes … I’ve completely ignored such pesky things like cost of ground transportation, cost of construction in space, variety of material costs, time of construction and change of economy over time, gravitation effects, weather or not slave labour was used, why did Darth Vader wear black, and many, many other things. If you care to try and take a stab at any other aspect I’ve otherwise ignored, be my guest! This was for fun, not accuracy …

So, first off, what do I base this all on? How about some educated, but none the less arbitrary numbers? Lets say that the Death Star is 1/10 mass for volume. That means 1/10 of the total volume of the DS is something other then empty space or air. And lets say, 6/10 of the total volume is pressurized, livable space. If that sounds off to you, to bad, write your own article, otherwise, keep reading.

That gives us a volume of 17.16 quadrillion cubic meters. At 1/10 volume, we’ll need 1.71 Quadrillion cubic meters of steel, weighing in at 134 quadrillion tonnes. In 2008 steel products, from wire to ingots were selling for an average of $962 per tonne, so our cost of steel alone is $12.95 quintillion.

Now, how about getting that into space? According to the numbers I could find on the internet, it costs around $95 million to ship 1 tonne of materials into space, so that means we’ll be cutting NASA a cheque for $12.79 septillion. (Remind me to order larger cheques from the bank please.)

Now how bout the air? Air is largely Nitrogen(80%) and Oxygen(20%), and rather conveniently we can ship it compressed. How much are we going to need? 8.23 quintillion m³ of Nitrogen, and 1.65 quintillion m³ of Oxygen. These compress by a very large factor; we’ll only need to ship 21.06 trillion m³ of Nitrogen, and 1.96 trillion m³ of Oxygen. (Credit 1)

Our Nitrogen is going to weigh in at 17.03 trillion tonnes, and our oxygen will tip the scales at 2.24 trillion tonnes. Cost of delivery? Get that pen out and write one of those oversized checks for $2.81 Septillion, and $212.46 quintillion.

Add it all up, and we have a figure of exactly $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226
and 94 cents. Tell you what, I’ll pitch in the 94 cents.

That is a lot of money. Wait, no that’s a disgustingly large sum of money.

How much exactly? $15 Septillion, I told you. But how can we conceive of that number? Well, the figures I could find for the World Economic Value were pretty general, around $14 Trillion USD. In other words, the DS would cost 1.11 TRILLION times the amount of money available in the world, that’s not even including the fact that the majority of that is digital and not physical.

How about something else? Say, how much is the Iraq war costing? You see all sorts of calculators out there, but one figure says $343 million per day, and that is a huge waste of money! But you know what? The Iraq war would have to last 124 TRILLION years, or 9,730 time the age of the UNIVERSE to equal the costs of building one measly Death Star. I mean, come now … it’s only one...

Credits
1) http://encyclopedia.airliquide.com
2) http://www.wikipedia.com
3) http://www.alpertron.com.ar/BIGCALC.HTM
4)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140874/posts

Yes, Septillion, that is a 1, followed by 24 zeros.
Ryszard Gold is a web designer, outlandish thinker and Apple specialist from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

web@rickgold.info
Jayson Joynt is a VW/Audi enthusiast, Apple Specialist, and has a thirst for music and photography. From Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

musical_genius@me.com
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ThunderCats, HO!
the BEST moshover I have EVER seen!


...see how many movies/actors you recognize.



i think there's Pitt, Jackman, Diesel, the chick is an alien from FarScape(another great show in its day), Lavagirl and Sharkboy, and Garfield!?!?

brilliant. period.

Super Bowl Sunday

yes, the only reason you watched it was:
A) your squares
B) you actually care about one of the two teams
C) you do enough interneting that you knew that they'd break out the G.I.Joe and Transformer 2 trailers

*dingdingding* we have a winner...
and here they are!

Yo JOE!



Roll Out!


oh yea, Happy Birthday Mole! i loveyou baby sister!