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12seconds - Toy of the Day: Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver! http://tiny12.tv/MV5CJ

@MariAdkins but I do hope you're OK!

Buy it!

Would you recommend this? Meh--not to anyone who loves Bubblegum Crisis. Much of what is strong about BGC is missing here.


Technically any good? The animation is great for the time period and I really like the character designs. The acting is fine, too. But the story hates women (lots of imagery featuring woman-shaped objects/people being harmed, destroyed, or acting crazy) and the universe is MUCH darker than the one in the original Bubblegum Crisis. There is almost no character dynamic here and what does exist is pretty damn cliche. Tough, gritty cops, sweating and killing in the line duty does not really end up feeling like a world soon-to-be inhabited by heroic, mad-robot-fighting women in super-robot-suits.


How did it leave me feeling? Meh. It was fine, but it really highlighted why the AD Police characters are supporting characters in the main BGC storyline--they're the cliches that the Knight Sabers replace. It also shows off why the Knight Sabers are needed. But why wait for them to show up? Just watch the original Bubblegum Crisis!


Would you sit through it again? Not really. Maybe. Meh, I don't know.

@brettbum wow, no tax on dead kittens? Dude, Uncle Sam should wake up! They're missing a great revenue stream! ;)

@waxkrayon napz! Sleep wellz! ;)

http://twitpic.com/4fo20 - Holy Crap! I'm Eating Chocolate Covered Bacon

@zumayabooks I hear ya, though I'm a one-man band. Er, and a puppet. :)

@CK67 not at all, man--figured you needed some time to yourself after the impromptu dropping of SC. Have actually been missing you over @ 12

Google doesn't do its cultural research and encourages discrimination. Do no evil, huh, G? (tinyurl.com/cv8cnp

@neiltyson did you see this: http://arxivblog.com/?p=71 ? Apparently, our universe may be heading toward a Euclidean signature. Neat!

It's been a busy week for Jay ThePal. He came in 1st place in one of the daily challenges on 12seconds.tv, had two videos featured (and then watched a whole mess of times) and even had his first hater. Yep, busy week!



And here's a nice, low-rez 41MB mp4 for your iPodding/podcasting pleasure.

Thanks, as always to, Lisa at OnLisaReinsRadar.com for hosting my mp4s!!

Dickipedia - A Wiki of Dicks (via a blog post at ShindoTV.com) (tinyurl.com/2ge7yr)

@SuperRichard another very good point, man. Only time will tell as the lame saying goes :) But right now it's much more easy to just whine.

@SuperRichard though it actually is helpful to me to know that no one else is suffering random jailbroken iPhone crashes.

@DrDollars really? On this planet? My own experience says otherwise, but hey, if it works for you, awsome!

@obra does Savory do anything Calibre can't do? I don't mind converting PDFs in Calibre on my Mac, but some PDFs the K2 still doesn't like.

@waxkrayon ...and I am of Scottish descent. Even got married there: http://is.gd/wZ5n yep, that's me with long brown hair. :P

@waxkrayon maybe today if I have time with the accent(s). The funny thing is I'm rubbish at understanding the real ones in person. :(

I am sick of seeing/hearing people explain that the cause of our crappy economy is/are the sub-prime mortgage defaults. This seems to place the onus for the mess that is upon us on the poor in the US.

Think about how stupid that is.

Let's blame the poor for our bad economy.

Right, that's logical... or it would be, if we lived on Bizarro World. How is it that people with little money can mess things up for those with lots?

First, you have to admit that the defaulted sub-prime loans were just a single factor (of many) in all of this. Then, you have to ask a very important question.

Recently, I came across yet another person on a socnet laying blame for our economic crisis at the feet of people unable to pay off their mortgages. The following is what I posted in response--it includes that very important question:

I think the bigger problem is why soooo many people couldn't keep up with their mortgage payments. If so very many people defaulted that it caused this massive failure of our economy, it seems more important to me that we ask why so many people couldn't pay their loan payments. Surely, they can't ALL be "lazy" or whatever.

I'd much rather solve the problem of so many people unable to make enough money to live comfortably, pay their bills and stay healthy.

However, in typical ThePete-fashion, I've a bit more to say. So here's that:

So, if they weren't all deadbeats, why couldn't they pay their mortgages? Because they hadn't seen a raise or a promotion in their jobs in a while? They lost their job because of downsizing, outsourcing or a personal medical issue? How much of those reasons are economically related?

How many of those reasons are related to the business' well-being put in front of the employee's well-being? To me this always comes back to all of us putting the right of a company to survive above the right of an individual to have a job that allows them to play their part in society.

And which would you rather do?

1) Prop up a faulty system, allowing the people and structures that failed once an opportunity to fail again

2) Let businesses fail, sending everyone, business owners and employees alike, a massive wake-up call that they can't just assume everything will just work the way it should without folks paying attention and thinking for themselves

I know I've loaded those options a bit, but it strikes me as odd that we should save the employees by saving the bosses who got greedy and were the largest catalyst of all this in the first place.

And on top of that, you've got to wonder about a system that is so unstable that, when one thing goes wrong, it falls to pieces.

No, to me there's something very very basic about our economic that is overflowing with wrongability.

@whereUatRO Or both--I think that's the real secret to immortality--being remembered (and ideally respected). If that happens you live on.