Month: November 2012

Prometheus

Finally watched Prometheus on Sunday. I’ve wanted to see this thing since the trailers starting showing up at the end of last year.

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I would have gone to see it in theaters, but Donna is not a fan at all of scary things that go bump in space. After watching the movie, I liked it, not nearly as much as I anticipated, but it sure was marvelous to look at. Will I watch it again? Maybe. Just to see if I missed anything that might make the movie make more sense. Will I buy a copy of the DVD to put on my shelf next to Alien? Probably not.

Yesterday via, io9.com I found a link to the original script, before Damon Lindelof “polished it up.” Not too surprisingly, I think I would have liked that movie better. Because it is a script, not a book, it helps to have seen the movie to aid in the visualization of the characters and the world they inhabit, but not a requirement. You can read it online or download a PDF to read at your leisure later. Alien Engineers written by Jon Spaiths.

Oh Deer!

The wily and masterful deer hunter that is my cubicle neighbor (Hi Mark!) has placed his trail camera in a small patch of woods out behind the Valve Store(R). He goes out and checks it a couple times a week and each time the camera has captured some white tailed deer, both during day and at night. Here are some samples from the last batch:

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Tran­si­tions since 10/24/08: 1181

How Much?

Mick Jagger’s love letters to the mother of his first child, Marsha Hunt, and the inspiration for the song Brown Sugar are set to go on Sotheby’s auction block early next month and are expected to fetch about £100k (approx $160,000.)

50 years from now, just how much do you think the tweets of Justin Bieber to Selena Gomez will be worth?

A Proud Part of the 1%

I may have started saying it partially tongue in cheek, but I actually did put a check mark next to Gary Johnson’s name. I was not the only one (well maybe the only one in my precinct) as the Libertarian candidate garnered over a 1.1 million votes and a solid 1% of the total votes cast.

One reason I felt I needed to vote for Gary Johnson was his stance on decriminalizing marijuana. That didn’t happen on a national level, but now Donna and I have another reason to move to Washington state besides her brother, his wife, a nephew and two nieces, Initiative Measure No. 502.

129,000 Acorns

Monday after work I went rollerblading around the neighborhood, but before I could safely skate from my garage door to the street I had to blow off the leaves and approximately 129,000 acorns that covered the driveway.

On the way to home to go rollerblading this afternoon the Emperor passed the 129,000 mile mark.