I Hope Clone Wars...

is cool. I saw the trailer for it again at the movie theater tonight. It seems like it will fit the bill, although I'm a bit upset that not all of the original actors lent their voices to this project. I guess from the clone wars television shorts, maybe there is voice acting continuity from that, so who knows? The trailer does do enough to get me excited about the release though. For the love of god, no more jar jar binks!!!

Testing the iPhone...

Ok, I realize that I have become a lemming, as I purchased the new iPhone this week as soon as I could get my hands on one. It is my first introduction to the world of smart phones, and can I say, that I have been pleasantly surprised. Taking whackly's advice, I have refused to hook up my work email to the phone. Smart move!!!

Now that I can blog on the go, maybe I can be better at posting to this blog. Good intentions at least part of the way there right?

I'm tired of paying for hobby software...

...and I'm downright sick of pirating it.

I'm thinking of taking my little music production hobby open source with Audacity, Traverso, and others.  

Good move?

Advice?

I realize that the readership for this blog has tanked since none of Mezzo's friends know about it and none of my friends have seen me in over a year, use the internet that much, and/or care.  Still... at least 1 f-ing comment a week would be ok.

Need Music

My favorite bands haven't released anything new for while.  A few of the projects that I was looking forward to have stalled or fallen apart completely.  I need new music.  All the best stuff I've discovered recently is already a couple of years old.  I can't bear to listen to pop radio.  I don't really watch T.V. I used to watch the shows like subterranean on the music stations but both the videos and the bands began to wear on me after while.  There a few bands that I really liked until I saw them taking themselves way too seriously on T.V. and realized what douchey emo dicks they are.  Somebody help me out.  Tell me about some music I don't know about already.

An Explosion Of Color or Vomiting Cheaply

I'm not sure which of the two titles is better but it's irrelevant. For those of you who are interested I just posted a bunch of pictures from this year's July 4th fireworks around the area over at M.F. JR. Have a look.

Questions nobody asked me.

Also included:
Answers.

Bonus:
Follow up questions nobody cares about.

1. Did WALL-E borrow from other sci-fi?
A1. Yes.
2. Does it impact the credibility of WALL-E?
A2. No.
3. Why?
A3. Anyone creating sci-fi borrows from other sci-fi material or even non-sci-fi material. Often they are creating new worlds, universes, and scenarios that would be boring if you had to explain every detail. Some themes are just an accepted part of sci-fi and offer familiarity to the reader/watcher without having to tack on a 27,000 word prologue. Often times the sci-fi creator is unaware that they are even borrowing an idea. The idea is just that universal or just that good.
4. Can you give an example from WALL-E?
A4. Yes. After hundreds of years in space humans have become so dependant on verbal communication w/ machines that they have forgotten how to read. This is hardly a new idea. Colony by Robert Grant used this same premise to similar humorous effect. Robert Grant wasn't the first one, either. Douglas Adams touched on the idea in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books, albeit within Arthur Dent's single lifetime while stranded and living alone in a cave. Douglas Adams wasn't the first either. Walter M. Miller had a similar theme as the underlying premise for A Canticle For Liebowitz, though in that case it wasn't dependance on machine but the destruction of modern civilaization in nuclear holocaust that was the cause.