Monthly Archive for June, 2008

5 days to go

Published on June 15, 2008 in Hobbies and Media. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Really looking forward to Friday at this pace. At least this week shouldn’t be too shabby – Tricia’s out of school and getting ready for our vacation, I’ll be busy packing and the like, and on Thursday I don’t really have a “work” day – Tim (the boss) is taking all of us interns with a few other employees in a big government van to go see the Hunley. Our workgroup at SRS is doing partnered work with the Hunley group, so we get to go see it. The Hunley is a Confederate States of America submarine, the first submarine to ever sink a warship. However, in that process, it sunk itself and over 136 years later from that fatal mission in 1864 it was recovered and sent to Charleston, SC. Our trip will be taking off at 7AM and getting back around 5PM – I hope to take a ton of pictures. :D

So last night I saw The Incredible Hulk. It lives up the the title “incredible”, that’s for sure. :D I don’t want to say too much here in the instance that someone hasn’t seen it yet and doesn’t want it spoiled for them, but I will say there’s a lot of great acting, some unexpected humor, some really fun cameos, and a lot of KICKASS motherfuckin’ HULK action. ^__^ (Also, don’t bother waiting after the credits – there’s nothing. The scene that should be there was moved to the very end of the movie… you’ll be able to identify it easily.)

Recently, I’ve been reading Super Effective, a side comic from VGCats. Granted there’s only 8 comics so far, I do rather enjoy this project of Scott’s. I hope that he continues this and it fleshes out more. :)

Mr. Bill was a fantastic skit 3 decades ago on SNL, wherein Mr. Bill was ALWAYS abused and mutilated during routine tasks. Seems like Mastercard decided to reach back for some good old humor with their latest commercial, reviving Mr. Bill:

:D “Ohhh noooooo!” XD

I don’t really know what else to add other than what I’ve already said. Chances are this will be my last post until I leave for my vacation, where I hopefully will have a ton of pictures and anecdotes to elaborate on. So, until next time, toodles!

Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow

Published on June 9, 2008 in Media. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

For kicks and giggles I decided to look up Walt Disney World on Wikipedia, seeing as I’ll be headed there soon enough and I’m excited. :P

After a bit of digging around, I found some very interesting things about the origins of the now Epcot park. Turns out, Disney World was never supposed to be a set of theme parks, but was supposed to revolve around the workings of EPCOT – standing for “Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow“.

More or less, this was supposed to be a utopia community Walt Disney planned for Florida. The plans were vast and very sci-fi – reminds me of The Giver in a sense… even to controlled weather, as the center and life of the community was to be enclosed like a dome. But the plans are remarkable, too, and I kind’ve wish this could be realized for today… I want to see how it would turn out. Here’s a Youtube of the original plans for EPCOT:

This is only part two of three. Part One and Part Three can be found by clicking the links I’ve provided – there was one version on Youtube that’s contained in one video, but the quality sucks pretty badly – you can barely decipher the image and sound sometimes. I embedded Part Two because that’s where the information starts – Part One is merely an ad for Disneyland that sets the tone for the rest of the video.

Please give them all a watch; they’re incredibly interesting and informative. I’d like to buy a copy of this video on the Walt Disney Treasures: Tomorrowland DVD.

I haven’t done much else today. I saw “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan”. Pretty fabulous movie, as that’s the only word I can really use to describe it with. XD Go see it – it’s probably the best Adam Sandler film in years. :)

Also, my brother showed me this:

Party on, Wayne and Garth. :) Good to see some good old humor from great duo once again.

101.7

Published on June 7, 2008 in Uncategorized. 3 Comments

Sometimes I wonder about this place.
Whether those noises are significant or if my reality radio needs a tuning.
Maybe then I can stop turning the dial endlessly,
Looking for something that might not be found.

I think the fan is going to fall right off the goddamn ceiling.

I’ve always looked at the stars, y’know. They’re scarce, but…
I wanted one.
I couldn’t ever have one. I reach for them and they blur or disappear.
I’m working on that.

Oh good, it stopped.

We run around in circles, much like that fan.
Unfortunately we blow hot air, unlike the fan.
Perhaps we should cool off sometime.

Look at me sometime. And tell me what you see.
I want to hear it.
All of it.
Raise your hands, kids, but I don’t have the authority to call on them.
So speak out of turn.