He doesn’t listen to them he’s knows that they’re the fool. They don’t like him.
I went to my first convention ever yesterday, Saturday, and it was fun. I got some Plastic Man comics, some Captian Marvel and one Star Wars comic. All these from the seventies. When miceland was a newly formed nation and reading comics for the first time.
I had found a short stack of the afformentioned before noon. And so I went exploring.
I saw Erin Gray. How cool is that? She was very nice. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was a rad show and Erin was one of the best parts of that. I lamented her having to play second fiddle to “Hawk”. We loved to make fun of Hawk.
I also got to see Chase “Leeta” Masterson. Super hot and very nice. I asked her if there were any rules to Dabo other than just shouting DABO! Yes, my suspicious were well founded. Just the shouting, that’s enough for TV. She did mention its a little like roulette which seems what the game is based on. I made a donation to her aid to troops charity in exchange for a photo. I paid in tip money from the chocolate booth and she laughed and asked if I was a stripper. My first thought would have been Waiter or Barrister but I guess that someone thought I could be a stripper us a distinct complement. Anyway it was fun and nice.
I got to go to the new Star Trek movie panel including trailer. The trailer was mind blowing. Listening to J.J. Abrams and some of the cast made me excited to see the movie. Looks really good. They really know how to get me riled up. Of course I was already read to see this movie so it did not take much to get me riled up about this. I also got to see footage from UP! and Terminator: Salvation. Both seemed great. I did not see The Watchmen thing but I do intend on seeing this movie when it comes out.
This I just happened on and it made me laugh. I wonder how much Katamari Damacy this guy has played. Probably lots.
Lastly, I saw Dr. Zira. She even made a scrunchy nose face.
That’s it for now. I had fun.
Happy Valentine’s Day???
Nice.
There are a couple of not exactly new products that have been emerging lately that have caught my eye lately. I see these products as almost achieving the Roddenberrian ideal form of the Padd. Do you know what a Padd is?
Chances are if you are reading this, you do. It’s a device seen in some of the Star Trek series. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe we first saw this type of device in TNG.
The moment I saw these things on the tin box I was dazzled by the possibility of such a doohickey. I like that in da future no one types. Its all speech to text. You just walk around and sometimes look at the ceiling and talk. No stupid Madonna mics are necessary.
The new kindle is more like a Padd then the previous boxy model. You can read novels on it like a Padd. You can’t write novels on it and it doesn’t do any speech to text but it does do text to speech and you can have your book read to you. Though Michael Crichton does not read the book to you like a book on tape, it’s a robot voice that makes you want to discombobulate it like its Landru or some other business. OK, maybe it only makes me want to discombobulate it. But the point is its robotic and not a dramatic reading. The worst part is you have to buy the device and then buy the books. I guess if you are always buying and reading books it could be a great thing. To me it seems like they are selling the razor and the blades both for more than I have or want to spend.
The thing is that only viewing one page at a time not two plus being in grey it really is not going to make for a great electronic comic book reader. Why isn’t anyone thinking about this?The thing is that only viewing one page at a time not two plus being in grey it really is not going to make for a great electronic comic book reader. Why isn’t anyone thinking about this?
You can get comics online, did you know that? You can even pay to read comics online. Well, Marvel comics anyway. DC is as usual back in the stone age of comics. Wait, aren’t those highly collectible?
Still I think the Kindle is too expensive and not really quite there as far as to be really all the features of a Padd. It is a step in the right direction though.
You might also get a tablet PC. Dell is making some pretty interesting ones now. This is getting closer as its going to be able to do whatever a laptop can do so its not just a single use device like the kindle. Still not every application will be able to take advantage of the tablet form. So I think except for some people you could wind up buying the tablet but wind up using it as a laptop. Big waste of money.
The iPhone is kinda tiny to be a Padd but it is ubiquitous, it is multi-use. You could download a book and read it in theory, on your iPhone. I think it woiuld be about as satisfying as watching a David Lynch movie on an iPhone. Which is to say, not at all.
So I will keep looking for my perfect, connected, text to speech, speech to text, reading comic books, writing letters, novels, poems, thumbprint signing on a contract, write and read reports on a Padd-like device. I have not seen it yet, but it is coming.
Well I have an appointment to get fixed next month. Should I be talking about that? I think that if you are one of the few still reading this blog after all this time then nothing will shock you.
I am having some very mixed feelings about the whole procedure. Its not that I am afraid of the pain. I’m sure it will be painful, I don’t really care. Do I feel like somehow my life will change so much that I might get divorced and somehow get married again to another woman who wants kids? I can’t really see that happening. I think its more likely that there will be some sort of Children of Men apocolypse and I will regret not being able to have kids due to my lack of clairvoyance about the future.
I love my kids. But really we could not handle any more kids. We can barely handle the kids that we do have.
Mostly I am just feeling somewhat melancholy as it is the self-imposed end of my reproductive cycle. Ah well. Say hi to your mother for me Donkey.
