First it was Roger Ebert, and now it’s Francis Ford Coppola saying that 3D is a bullshit waste of money. I find it hard to disagree, and it sort of feels like they’re trying to shove 3D movies and TV down our throats whether we want it or not. Then again, I wonder how many people thought color was just a fad, nobody would actually want to hear the actors speak, and teevee was just a curiosity that would never surpass radio. Yet, here we are.
The President heads to Buffalo today, to do, um, something or other. Maybe he’ll take the girls to Niagara Falls (travel tip: the Canadian side is much better, and, while you’re there, why not check out the Love Canal to see how the Gulf Coast will turn out, and then have a date night with Michelle at the King Edward?).
My one word of advice is to not meet with our Governor while you’re in the State. He’s not real popular these days. But then you didn’t want him to run for reelection either, so I guess you know that.
As for me, it’s off to work again, and then I’m being forced to go to an acupuncturist. I’m just gonna tell him to put a pin in everything ‘cuz, you name it, it don’t work so good no more.
Texass gov, dumber than a mud fence post:
Now, even though BP’s offshore rig, Deepwater Horizon, has created an ecological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, Perry is still defending the industry’s always-messy practice of extracting ever-more crude from the Earth’s depths. The culprit in this disaster, explained the guv, is not BP but the Almighty. “From time to time,” he informs us, “there’s going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.”
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PS Thanks guys for the good thoughts. :love:
PPS Kev, I saw the documentary on the oxy express. Didn’t realize Florida was at the heart of it. Pretty interesting.
A little bit of push back on Apple’s nonsense.
Apple wouldn’t allow Flash on the iPhone, so Adobe added the ability to export to a native iPhone app from Flash, so Flash developers could port their apps to the iPhone. Apple has now forbidden that by now requiring that apps must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript only. They not only want to control what runs on their OS, but also control how it’s developed.
Meanwhile…
Android, of course, is open source, and you’re free to develop apps for it any way you want.
yay for Linux.!
corporate computer systems suck
An Australian filmmaker has recruited a number of young men and women to auction off their virginity to the highest bidder as part of a reality television show, reports the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
The filmmaker, Justin Sisely, apparently spent over a year looking for willing participants to appear on the program. After being told that he would be charged with prostitution in Australia if filming went ahead, Sisely is now planning to move the show to, where else, Las Vegas.
“The hardest part is telling the parents, they hate me,” Sisely said.
Each virgin will receive $20,000 for participating, as well as 90 percent of the auction price, according to Sisely.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/13/australian-virgins-to-be_n_574696.html
Obama in Buffalo.
How’d the acupuncture go? Did it help?
Oh, no action, sad to say. It was only an intake form/interview, and an x-ray. A bit of a disappointment.
Bob Dobalina.
Oink! http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae244/Travis2010_album/fcd5629f.jpg
Never cared for the 3D, mostly because I’m legally blind in one eye so it doesn’t work for me, but what’s with all the remakes. Now I hear karate Kid is coming back.