Category: General

“Dear Locust Person,

You’ve been posting so much news and stuff, we never get to hear about your kids anymore. What are those cute children up to?

Well, I’m glad you asked that. They’ve been mostly OK up till today, but their mother has been sick on and off for two weeks.

Last night, she got really sick again, the guys are work have had the same thing over the last week or so. Today I had to come home to take care of Irene, and when I got home, Michelle started throwing up, too.

Only James and I have missed it so far, and it feels like a sword poised over our heads.

You can see here that James is very trepidacious.

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Zap2It News=> Prisoner Remake Ready to Roll

Zap2It says that Sky One in the UK has greenlighted a new, updated version of the classic series, The Prisoner.

The original series, considered, arguably as either one of the masterpieces or modern television or a complete shambles of nonsense, was created by and starred Patrick McGoohan. The series revolved around an agent who resigns, apparently on moral grounds, and is kidnapped and taken to the mysterious Village. A small microcosm of society run by…? Our side? Their side? Who knows? Their goal, to break him psychologically. McGoohan’s character is known cryptically only as “No. 6”.

It sounds like this remake (there have been proposed remakes for years) will be closer to the original premise, and that, to me is a good sign.

Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, is said to be in line to play the part of No. 6. No word yet on if he’ll wear a leather jacket.

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Casino Royale

They’ve released the trailer for the upcoming Bond film, Casino Royale.

I’ve got grave reservations about “new direction” the series is moving in, but the trailer doesn’t look as bad as I expected. Daniel Craig as the new Bond looks more like a henchman, though.

Perhaps that’s what they were going for?

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Abbey Road Webcam

Ever want to be meet the Beatles? Ever want to be the Beatles?

Well you can’t.

But, you can spend your day watching the Abbey Road webcam, waiting to see other people who have made the pilgrimage and try to imitate the album cover of the Beatles’ famous album, Abbey Road.

Believe it or not, you don’t even have to watch the webcam very long to catch someone monkeying around.

Technorati Tags: Blog, Travel

Apple => Get a Mac

Looks like Apple is finally getting serious about advertising Mac computers to the world. Apple recently unleashed 6 new Apple ads demonstrating the superiority of the Mac over a PC. You can watch the videos are the Apple link above.

There’s a lot of controversy about the commercial that points out the problem with viruses on Windows PCs and then points out the lack of them on the Mac.

Some people liken this to an airline advertising that they have fewer crashes than other airlines. Others liken it to car companies pointing out superior crash-test ratings.

I think the later is probably the most applicable parallel, but when a Mac virus comes, the media will blow it so far out of proportion that these ads will probably seem like the blew up in Apple’s face.

The fact is that OSX has (it doesn’t matter why) virtually no virus problems, especially when compared with PCs and that, by design, it is more safe than Windows PCs.

That does not mean that Macs cannot be hit by viruses, but even in the PC world, most of the time, virus problems have a human element (the operator) that has shown time and time again that they can circumvent even the best security. (Until the operators are replaced by Korean Fembots.)

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Gotta Love Taiwan!

While you’re at it, you might check out Alidarbac’s Flickr Photos – This guy has lots of really good photos.

When I was a kid, we went camping almost every weekend, and quite often we went hiking.

One of the coolest things to hike to were fire lookout towers. Not only could you climb them, they had a great view, and sometimes the Ranger would be there and you could go up into the tower for a while.

Despite that, those towers always scared the bejeebers out of me. They swayed in the wind and with every footstep your took. How could they be safe?

This isn’t one of those towers. This is probably an aboriginal structure in Taiwan but I ran across this picture on flickr and it brought back all those memories.

Unexplained Mysteries => More cold readers in court for fraud

Here’s an interesting column which suggests that legislation is needed to sort the real psychics out from the false ones.

I’d love to work for that branch of thee government when it gets formed!

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Woo hoo!

My photo of Lee’s Sandwich shop hit 100 views on flickr!!!

I guess that’s no big deal, my photo of butt paste hit 100 views quite some time ago.

(Is that really how you spell, “woo hoo”?)

BBC News => Star Trek Film Turns Back Time

Every time Paramount gets bankrupted for new Star Trek ideas, this “going back to the early days of Kirk and Spock” idea keeps popping up.

While I’m not opposed to the idea, and have no real problem with recasting Kirk, Spock and the rest of the crew (as long as we don’t see Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Will Smith, etc.), I can’t help thinking that the Christopher Pike era wouldn’t be a much better ground.

Of course, since they can’t make a good Star Trek anymore, anyway, why bother?

I want to see the OLD Enterprise. If they have to gussy it up for the kids, they might as well not bother.

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