Hey gang, sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been packing and moving my meth labs all around town due to some unsavory visits from the city engineering department. Plus it’s been bike month all through May and I can never say no to a hardy hit and run while escaping trailer fires.
Anyway, here’s something I saw the other day that made me wish I watched more BBC programing. It’s a clip from a show called Rush Hour which I’d never heard of until I saw this. Apologies for the squashed aspect ratio, I didn’t upload it, and yes I know that you don’t care, but it drives me F@%*ing mental.
So apparently everybody’s favorite happy black guy face is getting his very own TV show. Cleveland, Peter Griffin’s neighbor and friend on Family Guy, is going to be staring in a spin off series of the popular cartoon on FOX. Acording to James Hibberd of the US Daily, this isn’t something we should be surprised by as Hollywood seams to be writing checks for popular TV spawn like mad these days.
[From NBC's "The Office" to Fox's "Family Guy," broadcasters increasingly are urging their best performers to produce offspring. The debut of "Grey's Anatomy"-inspired "Private Practice" last fall was only the start of the latest round. Next season there's the still-unnamed "The Office" spinoff and Fox's "Family Guy" extension, "The Cleveland Show," as well as Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" prequel, "Caprica," which is filming a two-hour backdoor pilot. Projects based on Fox's "House" and "Prison Break" also are in development.] • article •
So say we all. As the former star of a spin off series I can tell you, craft services people are like angles with sliced avocado sandwiches for wings. Bearing a plethora of warm and cold beverages in pure white Dixie cups for all to enjoy, surely the spin off series is the greatest work of originality and selflessness a TV writer could ever hope to explore. God bless you comedy writers for your brave sacrifice, and perhaps one day society will realize it’s grave errors in piracy and actually purchase your works with real money. So say we all.
NOTE: what the hell is a “backdoor pilot” anyway? I just picture Adama with that mustache, wearing a scarf and a Red Barron flight cap, looking at me in that way. You know that, give me funny feelings way.
Okay so… as I understand this awesome piece of news: Gary Kasparov was giving a speech to the coalition of activists in Moscow about how the Kremlin is filled with a bunch of assholes. (The video’s not translated and my mail-order Russian bride went to go get milk a few days ago and hasn’t returned.) Apparently the pilots of the penis-copter were pro Czarist and fucking hate chess. Gary seems to keep a good attitude about it, I guess when you’re the third most famous person from Russia behind two iron fisted baby killers you gotta have a sense of humor.
Sweet music to my ears. Atmosphere, continuing his thunderous campaign on my ignorance to internal conflict, throws down hits like an MLB steroid junkie. He still manages to get me to check myself over like I’ve been caught stalled at the green light, but this time he’s just patiently laughing at me from his car, where as before I sometimes expected gunfire. Definitely gonna be on the play list this summer, and as sickening as this is, you can picture yourself singing some of these at his next show like a good zombie fan should. Production should speak for itself, ants have compound eyes right?
Just watch this Ted Talk, I don’t even know what to say. This is so damn cool. I’ll put the short clips that the guy includes separately for you completely impatient people. But for those of you that watch the whole video… ISN’T THAT FUCKING AWESOME?!?!
This wall clock is totally awesome. It has 150 hands that move to display the time with words. Words like “One” when it’s 1:00 and “Two” when it’s 2:00. This clock is so smart and has such an awesome personality. I would love to take this clock to the Roxy, but I’m pretty sure it already has an owner. That wouldn’t have stopped me a few years ago, I would have totally walked right up to the clock and been like “Hey, you wanna see a REAL minuted hand.” At this point in my life though I’ve learned that it can be hard for some owners to keep a nice clock around and just because the clock totally wants my awesome minute hand doesn’t mean I should take advantage of it. I’ll tell you what though, this clock completely changed my perspective on my wall clock. Oh GOD, it just sits there with it’s meager, fat 3 hands, struggling to get up past the 37 second mark, and then just totally slacks and rolls right down the other way. What a bitch. I’m not even gonna change it’s battery next time. Although…. it is about 600 times more precise.
This is pretty cool, and of course by cool I mean totally disturbing. You artsy kids out there might like this, but you also like getting government grants for something ridiculous you though up when you ran out of weed and tried smoking nutmeg in desperation. For the rest of you it’ll just be an uncomfortably disgusting wakeup call that not even the coldest shower can penetrate. So get out there and achieve those goals on your “before I’m 30″ list. You might be reaching with the whole “go back to collage” idea, or the “stop being such a corporate whore” thing, but reach for the stars anyway. That’s what they’re there for, to reach for, and to wish on, and to manufacture elements, and to eventually spell the demise for near by matter in one of several spectacular ways.
“After 37 years of theorization, researchers at Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) said they have proven the existence of the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering that has the potential to provide computers with super memory capabilities.” •article•
“ Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a distinguished faculty member in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (NYSE:CSC) Department of the University of California at Berkeley, hypothesized that in addition to the resistor, capacitor and inductor, a fourth element, what he called the , memristor, had properties that could not be duplicated by any combination of the other three elements.”
Ok so, basically what I gather from this is that this super smart dude has now proven a old theory that computer memory will eventually be able to work in the same manner as the human brain. What that apparently means is that at some point we will be able to download our consciousness and cognitive abilities into computer hardware and live on without the need for complex chemical energy and the biological component that keeps our thoughts and bodies alive. Now is a good time for me to inform you of a neat little cartoon called Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex. The future just keeps looking better all the time, lets just solve this whole FOOD/AIR/WATER situation so we can actually see it happen. Lil Wayne should really watch some Ted Talks though.
Big-ups to Geoff for enlightening my soon to be immortal cybernetic self.
“Optimists greatly outlive pessimists.” So well said. If you haven’t heard of Ted Talks it’s time to discover the world of greater intelligence that’s out there beyond the veil of American Idol. In fact the Ted Talks are so remarkable, and such an amazingly powerful privilege to behold, that they are now getting their very own category here at ZS (such an honor I know). I’m so pumped on sharing this stuff that I’m gonna jump right into it and post one of the more dry and lengthy talks I’ve recently seen. So if you’re just skimming while waiting for your coco puffs to finish warming in the microwave, then go read about how turbofuckingawesome the newest superhero movie is. But if you share the unquenchable thirst for knowledge like I do (ADD) and are a fast learner (presentation must be insultingly short and simplified) then make sure to watch this amazing (turbofuckingawesome) presentation by Craig Venter from 2005 on the progress in genomics since Clinton got his dick wet.
NOTE: This talk is actually 17 minutes long, I only said it was short for comic effect… are your coco puffs done yet? yeah? go fuck yourself.
Thank you Kyla for that wonderful trifecta of literacy.
Speaking of Gaming, I never got to throw my two cents in last year on the state of things. As you may or may not be aware, 2007 was a Titan of a year for incredible video games by the frigate full, and there were many a pretentious gamer and game reviewer alike wanting to talk about their pick for game of the year as if it were a divine sexual encounter. Well screw you guys, it’s my turn. Although BioShock was gnarly to the slashcore (what the fuck that means, I don’t know) it doesn’t even glimpse Portal. Simply put this is the first time a shooter has ever crossed over into something completely new, while retaining all the eye twitchy goodness that us unswervingly committed zombies demand in a hardcore game. Pure genius, so simple, flawless victory. Do your self a huge favor and play Portal. Also, speaking of kongregate, check out the 2D version which is also surprisingly awesome.
