Current Likes:

You all know I’m grooving on Uncharted 2 – Among Thieves and next up in my PS3 will be Ratchet and Clank – A Crack In Time. The demo looked promising if not a tad bit confusing with the duplicity tachyon thingamajigger, but the franchise hasn’t disappointed so far with all it’s gadgets and doo dahs.

Glee – Yes I’m part of the Glee club. I enjoy how every character is so very flawed. It reminds me of when I was in high school and I was deep in the theatre club yet hung around a Jock from the football club. I bet he got a lot of ridicule about that but he never showed it. Or I’m creating a drama in my head with fragments of memories.

On my iPhone, The NFB app operates like YouTube but you have access to thousands of Canadian film. You can watch streaming or download for a 24 hour period. Go watch all of Cordell Barker’s cartoons. “Stop shaking your eyes!! Why don’t you join some… shake rock n roll band?!”

For free, The Disney.com app has a few time wasting gems within it but it’s a bit heavy on the boy bands, but meh, it’s free.

For drawing, I’ve downloaded PS Mobile (the free Photoshop App) and SketchBook Mobile Express. Both offer fun little doodly kind of image manipulations. I like how the Sketchbook mimics “pen pressure” and creates faux thick lines (dependent on finger speed?).

Music-wise, I’ve rediscovered Massive Attack. For all the times I heard it in the bar when Blair was bartending, I think I blanked it out. But it’s back in my iPhone. Still liking Holy Fuck too.

Things I’m not grooving on:

When marketing departments throw the word “imagine…” at you, usually in threes, and actually think you’re going to stop what you’re doing and “imagine” their promises coming true. “Imagine a world where…” Or “Imagine knowing when…” That kind of crap. Stop making me imagine stuff I don’t even want to imagine. Oh and bonus hate points for the announcer saying “EEmagine” not “I-magine”. It’s like an ignoramus saying “Eye-talian” but in reverse.

Using “Re-boot” to mean “re-making”. Battlestar got away with it and now everyone is using “re-boot” as an excuse for “We can’t think of anything new or clever.” Latest culprit: The rebooting of “V”. Utter crap rip off of Battlestar (hot chick villain, sex reversal in the main characters, resistance/religious themes) . It wasn’t even a good series back in the 80s so why try? As soon as they dropped the Nazi symbolism and we found out about the lizards the show was dull.  Which was about 3 shows in.

Still hating TV stations and Cable companies twisting facts and words to make us believe there’s an injustice going on within Big Media. I’ll tell you the injustice: having to sit through shitty CTV commercials while I’m watching Survivor on CBS. Fuck off Canadian Content!

Leela: Didn’t you have ads in the 21st century?

Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games..and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

Via @Phronk on Twitter

There, Evil Panda… Happy now? Sheeesh!

This will be my last GRFW post. All the pieces are done and are ready for the day! I’m all jittery and excited!!

I watched the LCROSS impact this morning with an almost nostalgic sense of wonder (SharkBoy wasn’t so in awe), remembering my first big memory as a kid of the lunar landing back in 1969. I’m glad to see that NASA is struggling to get back into the Second Moon race – the Chinese have apparently HD mapped the surface of the moon in attempts to set up factories for the next iPhone.

“Waste of time,” I keep hearing on the web (I’m paraphrasing).

Not so. Water is hydrogen and oxygen. Split that apart and you have fuel and air – great ingredients for further exploration (like off to Mars) or sustained life on the Moon.

“But the Earth needs looking after!” I people moan.

Here’s me flipping both my thumbs up in the air, making an insincere face and saying “Great job, humanity! When the Earth started to fall apart you redeveloped the Hummer and plastic bags full of dog poop for your kids’ kids to find!” Obviously the Earth will not sustain us forever – it will fail us despite our best efforts. Maybe in 100 generations or more, maybe sooner due to war, who can say. I’d be happy if we had a back door to run out of if suddenly the house caught fire. Explore away, I say!

“But why did they have to hurt the Moon?”

Good lord it’s a lifeless rock! We do 1000 times more harm here on Earth in an hour with strip mining and wars than two pieces of a 1 ton spacecraft slamming into a cold, sun-less crater just so we can analyze the debris. Stop anthropomorphizing a heavenly sphere.

“Couldn’t we just send a robot?”

This was cheaper and faster.

“How much did this cost?”

Very little, really, compared to a regular ISS launch. American taxes went to NASA, NASA paid a lot of companies paid good money to have their parts built into the probe. That stimulated the economy locally. Jobs! Cash flow during the recovery of the worst recession in our lifetime is a good thing.

So to the Moon Sympathizers out there I say “Oh suck it up! We’re going if you like it or not!”