Coulda been a Klingon

He's got the face for it! 

This is a real profile picture, by they way, from years back. Ask yourself what kind of guy would willingly put this picture of himself online? A Moran, that's who. But he's got guns, so, cool!


Again, the internet can be a scary place. I've been building up a tolerance for years, coupled with inoculations and brutal cognitive therapy. That said, I KNOW there are things, images, lurking out there beyond horror, beyond disgust. I steel myself for that moment - since I remember back, way back when, in the dawn of the Internet and my dial up modem would talk to the Great Modem in the Sky, and bring forth shocking pictures, shocking words, shocking behavior. I spent much of my first three years on the internet in a state of perpetual shock. You don't have to go through the same!

Be careful out there, and take nothing personally.

Rosie's got a doll

It occurred to me as I found this pic that I often blur/confuse Rosie and Roseanne in my head. They are sort of the same character, right? With Rosie being the tamed down version, at least for now.

Bet Roseanne isn't a "friend of Barbie", however.

Review: Avatar

No real spoilers, though if you care about spoilers for this movie, I would assume you should have already seen it. 

Anyways, to wit: It's really just Aliens with better effects and a different narrative focus (the Aliens are the good guys). But that's a very standard story trope and there's nothing special about it here. Not terrible, not even bad - well done even. Just rote. And I mean it: It's shockingly like Aliens.

The effects, however, are amazing. I saw Avatar in 3D IMAX, and the experience was quite intense. Never seen a movie like it before - they used the 3D effects through out to great results. It was immersive, and I recommend the 3D version to anyone just for this experience.

Finally, the movie did not really even touch the aspect of this story I find most interesting: The use of Avatars. It really was not a big part of the movie. However, this concept of working with an Avatar in a "virtual reality" will become more and more commonplace for us, and in fact, more important. A rich area of study, both from a fiction and nonfiction sense.