Went to a presentation last night on the Star of Bethlehem. It was very informative and eye opening and the presenter pointed things out in the Bible that I’d never noticed before. On the site there’s a list of where the presentation will be and when, if you have the chance I highly recommend you go check it out even if you’re not a Christian.
Just heard about this product on CNet’s Buzz Out Loud podcast. It’s a standard AA battery with a built in charger. The top of the battery flips up to reveal a usb dongle so you can charge it via your computer. The downside? Right now it’s only available in the UK. But hopefully they’ll come to the states soon. Also they’re working on other size batteries.
No, this isn’t a post about what I’ve been up to. It’s just a little note saying that in the About CoolB page there are now two maps of places I’ve been. The first is for the United States and the other is for world countries. Both are thanks to a project from Douwe Osinga.
Friend of mine sent me a link to this site the other night. Basically you can write a message and sent it on the virtual ocean. You have no idea who or when it will be picked up. You can also pick up bottles that float by and read the messages and then either discard the bottle or toss it back in (along with your own addition to the message at the end if you want). Check it out here.
Went to Dorney Park yesterday with the girls and their dad and their friend. Had a great time, they even got me on a couple roller coasters, which isn’t easy. The two roller coasters they got me on were the Talon and the Hydra. Both of which are the type of coaster were your feet are dangling instead of in a car, which I think is easier on me since I get cramped in those relatively small cars.
We also went to WildWater Kingdom which is the water park section of Dorney. We rode a bunch of water slides, as well as the Runaway River were you just float around the water park. One of the girls really enjoyed it since she found money in a couple grates at the bottom of the water.
We also got stuck for a bit on the Revolution, but it wasn’t too bad.
All in all I had an awesome time visiting my friends and hope I get to come back to visit again sometime.
My friend I’m visiting runs a program called Scribbles that meets and allows kids (and adults) express themselves through poetry, as well as gives them somewhere to go and be with other people instead of something like a gang. I was fortunate enough to visit during one of their meetings and participate. The kids there were terrific writers.
Later in the evening myself, my friend’s two daughters and their dad went to laser tag. It was a blast! We were lucky enough to be the only four in the arena during our game so that added to the fun. It was two-on-two, guys versus girls. Their dad and I hit them more times but they still won since they hit our base more.
And after we got home we played a few rounds of Catch Phrase, which is a game where you have to get your team to say a certain word without using that word and before time runs out.
All in all, definitely a fun day, can’t wait for tomorrow, we will be going to the amusement/water park.
I’m on vacation visiting friends in Pennsylvania for a few days. Got in yesterday, flight was uneventful, although person behind me got stopped by security.
Last night for dinner my friends took me out to a Japanese steak house, one of those places where they cook your food in front of you.
The food was good, as was the entertainment, although my friends said the chef wasn’t as friendly as the one they had before. But the chef was nicer than the waiter who took our order, not much in the way of personality.
I’ll have to check and see if there’s any similar restaurants near my home.
Found an article over at SuperHeroHype that revealed the list of Transformers who would be appearing in the Transformers movie coming out next year, as revealed by the screenwriters during a Yahoo! webcast.
Autobots:
Optimus Prime
Bumblebee
Jazz
Ratchet
IronhideDecepticons:
Megatron
Starscream
Brawl
Bonecrusher
Barricade
Scorponok
Frenzy
Blackout
The Autobots make sense to me, obviously since this is a live action/CGI film they can’t have every Autobot but they picked some good ones, including one of my favorites from the cartoon, Jazz.
The Decepticons on the other hand.. I remember seeing somewhere else online that some of the Transformers would be new ones not seen before in the Transformers universe, and apparently they’re all Decepticons, but what gets me is they seem to be reusing some of the names (Brawl, Bonecrusher, Scorponok and Frenzy). Now granted, they could be the originals, but due to the nature of the originals I find it unlikely (the first two were on 5 and 6 robot “teams” that combined into one giant Transformer for example.)
At least though they put Starscream in, another favorite of mine.
And on another note it was announced that Peter Cullen will be voicing Optimus Prime in the new movie, and for those who aren’t aware Peter Cullen voiced Prime in the original Cartoon and animated movie in the 80’s.
It’s just two bad that Chris Latta and Scatman Crothers (original voices of Starscream and Jazz, respectively) both have passed away, their voices both fit those characters so well in my mind.
Got the link to the logo generator from Veronica’s site, I’m still trying to figure out how to make it the logo on the top of the blog, if anyone has any idea on what to change in the WordPress files I’d appreciate it.
Friend sent me a link to this site the other day. Star Trek inspired spoofs of those inspiration posters you see everywhere these days.
Heard some of the strangest news I’ve heard in a while on CNet’s Gadgettes podcast. Apparently AGFRAG Entertainment is developing a video game based on Bob Ross. Yes folks, sometime in the future you can make happy little trees and poofy little clouds on your PC, Nintendo DS or Nintendo Revolution according to this article on IGN
There is also a contest where you can submit your own art and the winner gets their entry included on the box art.
Got back from my trip to California this morning around 1 am, long cramped flight, but the trip was worth it. I went to attend I-Manicon 2006, the annual fan club members only convention for The Invisible Man put on by the I-Maniacs.
I had a blast, I arrived Friday afternoon, though a bit later than planned due to a flight delay, and when we got to the hotel we hooked up with some of the others who had already arrived than went to get some food. Afterwards I took a nap for a bit before helping put the goody bags for the con together.
The hotel was very nice, and from what I hear unless something better comes up before then, the con will most likely be there next year as well.
Saturday, the day of the con, was awesome! Was nice to see some of the attendees from previous years, got to catch up with some of them. Also got to meet some new people. Once everyone arrived we watched an episode of the show and some music videos made by a fan club member. We also played “O Crap” a themed version of bingo which was neat, and not just because I won a prize, a magnet.
After that we went to lunch at the Encounter Restaurant, which is inside the Los Angeles International airport. The food was ok, but the place made up for it with the sci-fi/space theme.
After lunch we went back to the hotel, and we watched an unaired pilot that Vincent Ventresca, the title character on The Invisible Man, did that a fan club member was able to get ahold of.
We then watched some more music videos until our guests arrived. First to show up were Eddie Jones and his wife Anita, who was also in an episode of the show. They signed autographs and did photo ops with the attendees for a bit and then Mike McCafferty showed up. He also did autographs and photos, and he even remembered me from the Chicago con which was very cool.
Next Vincent showed up, this was actually his first time appearing at one of our cons, all the other guests had been to at least one before. He was very nice, as were all the guests, and he did the autograph and photo thing while we waited for our last guest to arrive. He also found out we had copies of a couple of his unaired pilots, something not even he had, so we gave him copies as well. Then when Paul Ben-Victor, who like Eddie and Anita, was at last years convention. When Paul arrived we switched from autographs and photos to a Q&A session for a bit, during which the last guest showed up, Jason Makiaris, who guest starred in an episode of the show, and who is a friend of Mike’s who was also at the Chicago con. Shannon Kenny was also supposed to attend, but something came up at the last minute and she couldn’t make it, but hopefully she’ll be able to come next year.
After the Q&A we did group shots with the actors as well as one big group shot with all the attendees. We had to rush a bit on that part though since Vince had to be out around 5ish to go somewhere, although he was nice enough to stay a tad later to finish the photos.
Afterwards we treated the rest of the guests to dinner at Cafe Pinguini, the food was decent although it was a bit noisy. Mike’s family met us there and joined as well, he has a cute kid.
After dinner we headed back to the hotel, where Mike and Jason joined us for a bit, and told us about some the stuff they’re working on, including Robots of Comedy, a humorous, albeit corny, internet video project. He also told us a movie he filmed around the time his son was born (approximately two years ago) is finally coming out in September. The ironic thing is, one of the actors in the movie is also in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, which was filmed later but is being released first, go figure.
I’m hoping to be able to stay longer next year and also attend Comic-Con, which is always the weekend after our con since quite a few of the attendees go to both and can’t afford to fly out to California twice.
There was also some exciting news that was sort of mentioned, but I can’t go into it yet, but once I can expect another post on it…
Friend just shared this site with me and thought I’d share with my readers. It’s a site with online, interactive logic puzzles. The ones where you have to read the clues and figure out the grid. Kind of addicting. You can try them out here.
Then you should love this. I first saw this on Rocketboom. I have to say the person who did these has talent. My favorite is probably the second Duck Hunt image with the dog.
Found this flash animation online today and thought I’d share it with ya. Quite humorous. You can view it here.
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Found this on Kevin Rose’s blog. Corny yet funny spoof on Star Wars.