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dustindeckard: STAR WARS: IN CONCERT IS COMING TO...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:48:00 -0600

STAR WARS: IN CONCERT IS COMING TO WICHITA!

Considering how bummed out I was that I barely missed this show the last time I was in Seattle, I could not be happier that it’s making its way to Wichita! And in our brand-new Intrust Bank Arena, no less!

May 22nd. Two shows. I’ll probably be at both of them.

This is a dream come true.

Sorry. Can’t form whole sentences. Dying of nerdy happiness.

guh…..guh….

(that all being said, I’m enjoying Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces as much as I have every other...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:24:31 -0600

(that all being said, I’m enjoying Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces as much as I have every other recent Project Aces game, which is to say a great deal. I love the whole arcade-style flight sim genre…but I would like it more if it was a prettier Xbox 360 game.)

Wii

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:20:11 -0600

In the past two years, I have purchased exactly three games for my Wii. Almost exactly two years ago, on March 9, 2008, I purchased Super Smash Bros Brawl. Then, in November of last year, I purchased New Super Mario Bros Wii. Just last week I purchased The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces. (It was on sale for the day for $20.)

In the same period, I’ve bought probably a dozen Xbox 360 games, and maybe half again that many PC games. What is it about Nintendo’s console that just does not capture my interest? If I did not have one today, I don’t believe that I would go and buy one. Hell, I think I play my Nintendo DS more than I do the Wii. Why is it that none of the games that are attractive (to me, at least) are Wii exclusives? Almost everybody has a Wii, right?

starfleeting: (via slickchromeamericanprince) lol. Uh.

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:04:35 -0600

starfleeting:

(via slickchromeamericanprince)

lol.

Uh.

thedailywhat: [lettherebeblogs.]

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:26:21 -0600

thedailywhat:

[lettherebeblogs.]

thedailywhat: Auto-Tune The Science of the Day: Symphony of...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:43:17 -0600

thedailywhat:

Auto-Tune The Science of the Day: Symphony of Science #5 — “The Poetry of Science (An Anthem for Science)”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “If you’re scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you. And that understanding empowers you.”

Go Team Empirical Evidence!

[melodysheep / sos.]

Earlier: “A Glorious Dawn”; “We Are All Connected”; “Our Place in the Cosmos”; “The Unbroken Thread”.

Ditch Cable and Watch TV Shows and Movies Online

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:26:00 -0600

Ditch Cable and Watch TV Shows and Movies Online:

sheasylvia:

(via soupsoup)

Dear Boyfriend,

We are going to do this very soon. As in, the second college basketball ends. I know better than to deprive you of KU basketball.

XOXO,

Shea

It’s not bad at all. Allison and I get local channels over-the-air (which honestly takes care of most of what we want to watch anyway), DVRing them with Windows Media Center. We’ll watch whatever else we want to either through Hulu or Netflix. It’s great to have a cheap computer hooked up to your TV…it’s $400 or so out the gate, but you recoup that quickly by not having to pay for cable.

Wikipedia vandalism is occasionally hilarious.

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:13:55 -0600

Wikipedia vandalism is occasionally hilarious.

This. Is. AMAZING. I love it when old(ish) technologies come...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:57:00 -0600

This. Is. AMAZING. I love it when old(ish) technologies come together to make something new and wonderful.

"…lately I’ve been really annoyed by any liberal person getting married who says they stand for gay..."

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:13:47 -0600

“…lately I’ve been really annoyed by any liberal person getting married who says they stand for gay rights. How can anyone in good conscience get married right now? How is that different than joining a country club that doesn’t allow Jews or blacks?”

- Sarah Silverman (via nonduality) (via dustindeckard

)

I understand the sentiment, but I have to point out that a better analogy is not joining a country club but saying that playing golf at all is racist. Comedians aren’t built for logic.

(via awkwardscott)

Um, I don’t consider Sarah Silverman a comedian. Just saying.

(via joshdutcher)

Oh, right, sorry, it’s comedienne.

FUCK. YES.

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:22:38 -0600

FUCK. YES.

In more ways than one.

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:32:09 -0600

In more ways than one.

Just ordered my Alienware M11x! Intel Core 2 Duo...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:48:00 -0600

Just ordered my Alienware M11x!

Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 1.3GHz
4GB 800MHz DDR3 RAM
11.6” 1366x768 LCD display
nVidia GT335M 1GB Graphics Card
160GB Hard Drive

I’m incredibly excited, but kind of upset that it won’t ship until March 1. ONE MONTH!

My doppelgänger.

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:53:47 -0600

My doppelgänger.

Last night was the series finale for Joss Whedon’s...

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:06:17 -0600

Last night was the series finale for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. There are spoilers ahead, so if you haven’t seen it and plan to, you might want to skip past this.

I have really mixed feelings about Epitaph Two. I thought that it was a good episode with a lot of closure, but as Joss Whedon shows tend to do, there were as many new questions as there are answers. (This is a problem, since the show is cancelled.)

My biggest problem is the deus ex machina with Topher’s unwipe-bomb. To me, the series was leading up to Echo being the cure in one way or another, the savior to humankind, “the one”. I figured she would be the sacrificial lamb. Instead, they pointlessly redirect to a rather silly idea of Topher’s that, while it buys him his much needed penance, comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with Echo.

I’ll buy the idea that the unwipe-bomb can reverse the effects of those changed by the remote-wipe tech. But the dolls that have been wiped and imprinted by the chair? If tere was a way to restore them without a backup, I think Topher would have figured it out long ago. Instead, he has insisted dozens of times over the course of the series that the chair wipes them clean. (Of course some things stay, like Priya and Tony’s love for each other, but I think the show’s point there was that some things are deeper than memory engrams.)

The question is, then, why is Echo important? They established in the last episode that Echo could ask as some sort of a vaccine, so where did that go? Seems to me replicating that would have been priority one. They basically made her character completely unnecessary.

I really liked Alpha actually being a relatively normal person, rather than the Joker knock-off he was beginning to become earlier in the season. He even had one of the funniest lines in the episode: “This speaks to the schizophrenic in me. Both of them.” The question stands of why he wasn’t psychotic and homicidal now, 10 years in the future. My guess is that his brain, given time, was able to sort things out and stabilize, but who knows? Maybe the imprint of Ballard he downloaded gave him a sense of order he didn’t have before. Or, maybe Echo and Ballard pinned him down in the chair at some point and reprogrammed him. Either way, I have a sneaking suspicion it will be addressed in a comic book at some point.

Speaking of Ballard, I’ve seen a lot of people complain about his seemingly-random death. But, y’know what? In firefights, some people get hit by bullets, and it’s not always the bad guys. I don’t mind, actually, I didn’t really like him anyway. It’s not good for Echo, but as I said earlier, she’s not exactly important at this point anyway.

Dollhouse really became good after it became more of an ensemble show and less of an Eliza Dushku vehicle. Eliza’s okay, but she is far from the best actor on that show. Enver Gjokaj, specifically, is an amazing part of the cast, and I’ll be watching for anything he does in the future. (Enver’s impression of Topher was almost better than Topher!) Fran Kranz, too, is fantastic, and he played some of the more convincing character development on the show.

And this speaks more to the previous two episodes, but I really hate what they did to Boyd. I have a hard time believing that the writers planned for him to be the head of Rossum all along. It seems so very…out of character for him. His turn seems like the most contrived plot twist in the entire series. It’s really too bad for Harry Lennix, who did a fantastic job the whole series through.

The biggest question is that, even with Rossum taken down in the second-to-last episode, how does the Epitaph One apocalypse still take place? Who gets the tech and expands upon it? Again, all things I’m sure we’ll see in a Season 3 comic book series. (Not something I’m opposed to, but I’d surely rather it be a TV show.)

If you use TurboTax to automatically brag about filing your...

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:10:00 -0600

If you use TurboTax to automatically brag about filing your taxes on FACEBOOK, I’m unfriending you immediately.

Just saying.

starfleeting: my personal favorite. IDK, bitchass romulans up...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:39:37 -0600

starfleeting:

my personal favorite.

IDK, bitchass romulans up in his shit.

Information is ever-so-slowly leaking out about the Alienware...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:11:00 -0600

Information is ever-so-slowly leaking out about the Alienware M11x. Confirmed: it will start at $800. Knowing Alienware, the cheapest desirable configuration will be $1000. Still…it’s going to be mine.

thedailywhat: chainsawsuit. lol type jokes

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:05:51 -0600

thedailywhat:

chainsawsuit.

lol type jokes

"Thirty-seven years ago today, the Roe v. Wade decision legalized the right of American women to..."

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:49:15 -0600

“Thirty-seven years ago today, the Roe v. Wade decision legalized the right of American women to abortion.”

- - My Planned Parenthood newsletter from today.

When we lived in Washington from May 07-May 08, I kept up with Wichita news on kansas.com every other day or so. A few days before the Roe v. Wade anniversary came up there was an article about anti-abortionists protesting Dr. Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Center. I felt bad for the people that worked there having to deal with so much crap from others, so I sent a card to them. I told them I admired their courage and passion and that I would be thinking of them specifically on that day. They sent back a thank you card with all the signatures of the staff, which was really wonderful of them. On this day, I always think of that card, especially this year, because of Dr. Tiller’s death. He went out fighting the good fight.

(via ucancallmeal)