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June 29, 2007
Phew
So, I've been pretty excited about the upcoming Transformers movie. Should I say I've been excited about this movie like Alaska is big or space is cold. I'd talked to a few people about having a shirt screen printed that said, "Bay, you better not have screwed us on this one".
A review is out today that, if it is to be believed, puts my fears to rest.
A choice qoute:
"This summer’s blockbuster has finally arrived people. Only it’s not a mere blockbuster, it’s a two and a half hour atomic bomb… strapped to a roller-coaster… filled with snakes… on fire!"
Read the review, see the movie and reveal in it's cybertronian goodness. (I was gonna link 'cybertronian' to the wikipedia link on cybertron but I'm going to play the elitist card and say if you don't know, I'm not going to link it for you)
Posted by bucjos at 03:03 PM | Comments (2)
June 25, 2007
They've finally gone too far
I'm a pretty ideal customer at fast food establishments. I am easily swayed by the advertising and pretty regularly will order which ever item is "new" or "better".
Well, today Wendy's broke me of this with one fel, bacon infused swoop. That sandwich looked so unappealing I could not order it. Way to go Wendy's, way to go.
Posted by bucjos at 01:08 PM | Comments (6)
June 19, 2007
I commend you, oh drawers of "the line"
So, I saw a link to an article that ministers in Britain are looking at passing a bill which would make it illegal for a man to have sex with a woman if she is too drunk to consent. Up to this point "the line" has been consciousness. Now, it would be changed to some arbitrary line that amounts to "is she too drunk to realized what she's doing"?
The idea is to put more creepy men behind bars, which I'm entirely on board with, but I have to wonder if this is erring too far on the protective side. I wonder if the man's level of drinking is relevant, if a female can be too drunk to consent but is still conscious can a man be still conscious but too drunk to properly judge the woman's level of inebriation (could this be called the beer goggles defense)?
The article mentions the potential for women to use this amendment to the law to press charges if they feel guilty or regretful after other wise consensual sex. That concern, coupled with articles like this one which showed that only 1/5 of women that ended up in the hospital complaining of being drugged actually had been, the rest had just had too much to drink or were on recreational drugs, presumably of their own taking, lead me to be a little concerned. Given the potential for abuse and also the fact that if ever a guy was presumed guilty until proven innocent it would be in the case of a sexual attack on a woman makes me wonder how this would play out in the courts.
I love the idea of better protection for woman but I don't know if this is the/an answer.
Thoughts?
ps. I just realized that if I were running for public office a headline somewhere would come out and say "Candidate foo is against protecting woman from rape" and that made me laugh and then be sad because of how ridiculous that statement would be and then the fact that people would likely not follow up and see what the real story was but let the false impression sit in their subconsciousness.
Posted by bucjos at 06:07 PM | Comments (11)
I hereby fail as a man
But man, what a way to go out.
Here it is, my last act as a man.
Please look at this picture of a kitten.
I know, I know, I'm that guy but good night does that picture make me just bust up, dr. evil style (those of you that have heard the laugh know I can do it).
Posted by bucjos at 05:33 PM | Comments (2)
June 06, 2007
Homer Simpson, your day has come
From slashdot, technology brings us a chair that does the walking for people. This brings to mind Homer's immortal words "and here I am, using my legs like a sucker".
Posted by bucjos at 11:06 PM | Comments (1)
June 04, 2007
+1 for science
Caught a link from digg about a table saw that doesn't cut humans, only those dirty, traitorous trees. The video is pretty cool, check it out.
This is the kind of crap where we need to give technology some credit.
I guess we could build this kind of technology into skynet and make sure that the robot apocalypse doesn't employ blade technology ;)
Posted by bucjos at 02:12 PM | Comments (6)