Random Thoughts

I think that I would have been more subtle about it by dropping subtle
hints over a long period of time so that people get used to the idea.
(And the speculation would have been good publicity. ) Instead it
feels like they are trying to force an agenda. It seems completely
unnecessary and I don't like the lack of continuity with the decades
of character history.

Not that what happens in a comic book is that important, but I like
the movie version of Green Lantern that is clearly heterosexual.

I don't think that the comic book pages are the place to promote
unresolved controversial social agendas.

http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/dc-comics-confirms-green-lantern-comic-book-character-is-gay-201216?stop_mobi=yes

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Imagine driving into this

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Using vinegar in the dishwasher.

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+it+a+good+idea+to+put+vinegar+in+the+dishwasher%3F&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&safe=images

Monday, May 21, 2012

RE: quotes

"never-never-never-never give up" -- Winston Churchill

quotes

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover

Misattributed

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Though Rickover quoted this, he did not claim to be the author of the statement. Using it in "The World of the Uneducated" in The Saturday Evening Post (28 November 1959), he prefaces it with "As the unknown sage puts it..." — It has sometimes been attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but without definite citation.

You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Variations of this quote have been attributed to a number of people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel Levenson, and Lao Tzu; there is no solid support for any such attribution.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Peninsula

In Latin, peninsula means "almost island". In some languages it is
called "half island."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsula

Monday, April 23, 2012

The Force

Force (Star Wars)

The Force is a binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star Wars galaxy created by George Lucas. Mentioned in the first film in the series, it is integral to all subsequent incarnations of Star Wars, including the expanded universe of comic books, novels, and video games. Within the franchise, it is the object of the Jedi and Sith monastic orders.

Lucas has attributed the origins of "The Force" to a 1963 abstract film by Arthur Lipsett, which sampled from many sources.

One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 was a conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S. McCulloch and Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who went on to develop IMAX. In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that there is something more: "Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God." When asked if this was the source of "the Force," Lucas confirms that his use of the term in Star Wars was "an echo of that phrase in 21-87." The idea behind it, however, was universal: "Similar phrases have been used extensively by many different people for the last 13,000 years to describe the 'life force,'" he says.