Humor
Yes, you too can use that wonderful built-in motion sensor to pour virtual beer.
….Ooooooookay.
Meanwhile, I truly feel there might be better things to run on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
And how not, when he writes stuff like this?
Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor. And the movie about them is all that it could be. If you think “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” sounds like a waste of time, don’t waste yours.
I, as it happens, have time to waste and cannot do better than to quote from my review of “The Mummy” (1999): “There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.”
Go Roger! Go Roger! Go Roger! Go Roger! (etc)
Tags: Roger+Ebert, film, review, Mummy, Dragon, Emperor, Tomb
PASADENA, Calif.–Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled in number over the past seven billion years…
So what’s the cause? Gentrification, or looser liquor licensing laws? You decide.
(with a tip of the hat to The Quantum Pontiff)
So I’m sitting here wrapping up book packages and getting caught up on the email, and were_gopher sends me this link. (Thanks Om!) And now my birthday is complete before it’s barely started.
Thanks for your concern, everybody. I’m a little better. Won’t be able to get the ultrasound till next week, though. (mutter) I will be sorting out those last book requests today and tomorrow, though, so if you haven’t heard from me, you will shortly.
Meanwhile, though, there’s this to laugh about.
“My name is Turambar,” cried Turin, “and Evil have been all my ways.”
“And my name is Niniel,” wept Nienor as they fell into each other’s arms and she became heavy with child. And lo, when Glaurung told her she had shagged her brother and Turin had been slain on his quest to rescue Húrin, she threw herself into a ravine. Yet Turin was mere wounded, and once he discovered Nienor’s fate, he slew Glaurung before turning his sword on himself. So it was that no one lived happily ever after.
(snort)
Over at Scientific American:
Kryptonite Discovered; Adamantium Remains Elusive
No, really!
[tags]kryptonite, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide[/tags]