Category: Not-politics

And what was wrong with Clash of the Titans?

Apparently Liam Neeson – who, again, did a great job in Taken – is going to be playing Zeus in the remake.  Why we need a remake of Clash of the Titans in the first place in not mentioned; I’m still scratching my head over that.

I mean, come on: that’s some fine stop-motion animation there. And you know that they’re going to CGI the new one, and you know that it’s going to suck, and you know that I just sounded like every other aging geek on the Internet, so I’ll stop now.

Pluto *is* a planet, dammit.

Not a ‘dwarf planet.’ It was a planet when I was born, it’s a planet now, and it’ll be a planet after I’m dead. I don’t care what the International Astronomical Union has to say about it.

And get off my lawn!

Moe Lane

PS: Sign the petition!\

PPS: No, the Yuggoth
thing has nothing to do with it. Really. Honest. Not a thing.

PPPS: Via Fark Geek.

This map is probably nonsense, alas.

Interesting nonsense that gives us some perspective on the history of television from a new angle, but probably nonsense:

starmap

Bear in mind that I am not anything remotely resembling an expert on this topic, or even an apprentice; but I am given to understand that in general our radio and television broadcasting signals are going to degrade over interstellar distances… and at this point somebody says “Fermi Paradox,” and then somebody else says “Drake Equation,” and then the arguments start.

Damned if I know where the hell is everybody, myself.

Book of the week: Unseen Academials (Discworld)

And so, we go from Neil Gaiman’s Coraline to Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals. No, it’s not out yet. But it will be, in about a month – which should be enough lead time for me to be able to splurge on the hardcover.

Hey, it’s Pratchett.

How *do* you resolve the WKRP in Cincinnati problem?

The problem being, apparently, that the DVDs suck because they had to take all the music out; there would have been no way to get all the permissions from all the bands whose music was used in the show (via RS McCain).  I have to say that I’d consider properly compensating the musicians is more important to me than presenting the show in its original form; I’d also have to say that I won’t buy the aforementioned DVDs in their present incarnation.  Not that I can particularly buy DVD sets of anything right now, but if I could, I wouldn’t.

It’s an interesting problem.

Moe Lane

PS: De rigeur:

Now *I* want to be a ‘Director of Fun.’

But nobody told me that the position at the National Railway Museum was open.

Six-year-old Sam Pointon from Leicester wrote to the museum and applied to replace retiring director Andrew Scott.

In his application Sam wrote: “I have an electric train track. I am good on my train track. I can control two trains at once.”

Bosses were so taken with his enthusiasm they offered him a role as director of fun.

The video is funny, too. Very Trump-ish.

The greatest fast-food item in Western Civilization.

I thought that I was just going to light-post today. After all, we went to an SCA event this evening, and it’s Saturday.  No big deal if I’m taking it easy.

But then I saw… this (Via Hot Air Headlines).

For those who can’t hear the commercial for the Double-Down sandwich: it’s a bacon-and-cheese sandwich… that uses two fried-chicken patties for the bread.

Great googley moogley.

Moe Lane

PS: If it’s fake, it’s one of the best fakes on the Internet right now.