Would you like some cheese with that 'whine'?

It's funny how easy a task becomes when you decide to stop whining about it and just sit your ass down and do it. I must learn to employ this more often...

Armageddon It

Discover magazine's Extreme Universe has a list of the 10 best and worst sci-fi films (according to author and astronomer Phil Plait). Can you guess what he thought of Armageddon?

This 1998 blockbuster was so exquisitely awful

that it's hard to pick a single instance of bad science

in it, since the movie is essentially 99 44/100 percent

steaming garbage. The plot is that a Texas-size asteroid is

spotted 18 days before it hits Earth. NASA sends a team of

wisecracking oil-rig workers (including a grimacing Bruce Willis)

to plant a bomb that will split it in half so that the two separating

chunks will miss Earth, save the day, and allow the boy to get the

girl. But first of all, there is no asteroid that big. Second, if there

were, it would be bright enough for Galileo to have seen it.Third,

it would take decades for it to get from the asteroid belt to Earth.

Fourth, oil-rig workers? Fifth, the bomb used to split the asteroid

would need to explode with the force of a hundred billion one-mega-

ton bombs, millions of times the total yield of all nuclear weapons

ever detonated. I, for one, am glad no such bomb exists.

I just wish the movie had bombed as well.

Ok, fine. The "science" is lame. But if you didn't at least shed a tear or two when Chick's estranged family greets him at the end, then you are a soul-less harpy who eats children (and possibly puppies). Begin viewing at 6:32-6:57.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lcMeM-3wtw

say "Wat"?

In 1947, the same year that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, Wataru "Wat" Misaka, 5'7", became the first non-caucasian to play for the NBA. He was a first-round draft pick for the New York Knicks. It was more than 30 years before another Asian was drafted (7'1" Chibi Okayama--Golden State Warriors, 1981).

Check out the doc:

http://www.watmisaka.com/

Feeling a little hormonal, are we?

Barren winter came
And with it happiness, but...
Welcomed blood brings tears.

Busta!

It's a little old school, but hey, so am I! At the 1998 Grammys, this lost out to "Men in Black". Hrmmmm......

http://music.aol.com/video/put-your-hands-where-my-eyes-can-see/busta-rhymes/1100655

The Human Highlight Reel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G58UjBzhyco

*sigh*

We're not the worst!

The Lions finished the season 2-14, which is a distinct improvement over last season's record-setting 0-16 finish. And yet, as much as we suck, we're still marginally less craptastic than the Rams (1-15).

Go Lions!!

Ode to Blood Bank

Once upon a Shawshank dreary,
While I festered, eyes most bleary,
O'er various and sundry mandatory readings and other
Boring crap,

Suddenly there came a tappin'
On the window.
Damn! I'm nappin'!
Now I gotsta get ta crackin',
Crackin' on the fresh O-negs.

If only ARC delivered kegs...